How to call VS Code Editor from terminal command line

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The question says it all   How can I open VS Code editor from   windows cmd linux and mac terminal   e g  for notepad   I write   gt  start notepad   test txt  By the way  the editor is awesome  cross-platform   Thank you Nadella   You can download it from microsoft

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VS Code is a must have code editor for 2018

For Windows 10 users a lot is possible, the same way the Mac OS users type code . .

Look for you VS Code \bin folder path e.g C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin . The bin folder includes a file called code.cmd

Follow the steps below and be proud of the OS you use.

Search for "Advanced System Setting" from Start.
Click on Environment Variables
On System Variables choose "path" from Variable tab and click on Edit.
Click on New on the right side of the popup window.
Copy your path from the Explorer's breadcrumb path and paste it into the new opened path in step 4, example:- C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin
Click Ok on all the open windows to confirm changes and restart your cmd
Go to your cmd and navigate to you working directory on server and type code .

C:>cd wamp64\www\react-app> code . to open with VS Code on Windows.

Visual Studio Code also includes a command prompt (terminal) window and you can open one or more of them with
Ctrl + ` on your keyboard.

Hope this helps some one like it did to many of us.

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Other easyway to do it on mac is  go to Command Palette  Shift    Command     P  and type  Shell Command  Install  code  command in PATH  once installed  Shell command  code  successfully installed in PATH   Then you can use code from the terminal as well

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Open command line and type  cd your folder path code cmd     or code cmd your folder path  It will open your folder in Visual Studio Code  Make Sure  you are inside the correct folder after executing  quot cd your folder path quot  command

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In linux terminal you can just type    code run

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In windows you can add following path to environment variable  C  Users username AppData Local Programs Microsoft VS Code bin

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typing  code  in dos command prompt worked for me

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When installing on Windows  you will be prompted to add VS Code to your PATH    I was trying to figure out how to open files with VS Code from the command line and I already had the capability - I just forgot I had already added it  You might already have it installed - check by navigating to a folder you want to open and running the command code   to open that folder

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For VS Code Insiders Windows users  vs code doc    Add the directory  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft VS Code Insiders bin  at  PATH  environmental variable   then go to the folder that you want to open with vs code and type   code-insders

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Delete old virtual environment and create a fresh virtual environment

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A simple way is to go to your Project where you want to open it and type  code cmd D  PathTo yourProject MyProject   That s it  It will open your project in Visual Studio Code

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This will work    This is your directory name    Directory Name    sudo code --user-data-dir  Directory Name

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This works for Windows   CMD gt  start vscode   file o  git libzmq builds msvc vs2017 libzmq sln   But if the filepath has spaces  normally one would add double quotes around it  like this   CMD gt  start  vscode   file o  git lib zmq builds msvc vs2017 libzmq sln    But this messes up with start  which can take a double-quoted title  so it will create a window with this name as the title and not open the project   CMD gt  start  title   vscode   file o  git lib zmq builds msvc vs2017 libzmq sln

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You can also run VS Code from the terminal by typing code after adding it to the path   Launch VS Code  Open the Command Palette    P  and type shell command to find the Shell Command  Install code command in PATH command  Mac shell commands  Restart the terminal for the new  PATH value to take effect  You ll be able to type code   in any folder to start editing files in that folder

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In linux if you use code   it will open VS Code in the folder the terminal was in  Using code   Filename cs it will open in folder and open said file

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I use the following command to load a project quickly  in linux   cd into the project cd  project run command code pwd  similar steps can be used in other Os too

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In the case of Linux and Mac  you want to navigate to the directory that you extracted the VSCode files using the  cd  command   For example   cd   Downloads VSCode   Then you start the application by running      Code    Code  being the name of the executable   If you have root access on the machine  you can configure the system to allow you to start VSCode from anywhere by linking it to  usr bin  where links to executables are often stored   sudo ln -s  path to VSCode folder Code  usr bin Code       You can now launch VSCode from anywhere by typing   Code

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Sometimes setting path from VS Code command palette does not work Instead manually add your VS Code to your path   Run in terminal sudo nano  etc paths  Go to the bottom of the file  and enter the path you wish to add  Hit control-x to quit  Enter    Y    to save the modified buffer   Restart your terminal and to test echo  PATH  You should something similar      echo  PATH  Users shashank  nvm versions node v8 9 2 bin  usr local bin  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  Applications Visual Studio Code app Contents Resources app bin Next time  you navigate to your project folder from terminal Enter  code   or code  path to project Source

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To open a file or directory use the command  code  path to file or directory you want to open  For macOS users  it needs to be installed manually   Launch VS Code  Command   Shift   P to open the Command Palette  Type shell command  to find the Shell Command  Install  code  command in PATH and select to install it  Restart your terminal

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In a way I am reticent to add to the long list of answers   However  I searched this page for the word  quot portable quot  and came up empty    And I did a full Stack Overflow search and also found nothing    So I want to add this very specific answer for potential future searchers  This answer is for if you installed VS Code in Portable Mode on Windows 10   quot Portable Mode quot  refers to what is described on the official VS Code web pages  which as of 21 January 2021 are found here  https   code visualstudio com   It does not mean the Visual Studio Code Portable project started run by  Gareth Flowers  or any similar project    I am not saying anything bad about this or other projects - I have neither used nor evaluated    If you are using one of those projects  you need to check with that project documentation community - although this might work   quot Installing quot  VS Code in Portable Mode is downloading a  zip archive and extracting it locally wherever you want your VS Code  quot installation quot  to live   There is no actual installation or setup that is run  so there is no automatic adding of the code command to your PATH   Answer After extracting the Portable Mode VS Code files to the location of your choice  there should be a bin folder in that location   Copy the full path of that bin folder and add it to your System or User  your choice  PATH variable  You should then be able to use the code command from PowerShell or CMD

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For command line heads you can also run   sudo ln -s   Applications Visual Studio Code app Contents Resources app bin code   usr local bin code  this will do the exact same thing as the Shell Command  Install  code  command in PATH command feature in VSCode

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Step 1  create a  bat file with the name you want e g vscode bat  Step 2  Write your path to Visual Studio Code  Step 3  Save it in C  Windows System32 directory     C  cd Users Bino AppData Local Programs Microsoft VS Code Code exe     Step 4  You can call visual studio code from any where by typing  vscode  which is the name of your bat file

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On Ubuntu the flatpak version seemed broken   I uninstalled it and downloaded the deb package right from Microsoft

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Per the docs      Mac OS X         Download Visual Studio Code for Mac OS X    Double-click on VSCode-osx zip to expand the contents    Drag Visual Studio Code app to the Applications folder  making it available in the Launchpad    Add VS Code to your Dock by right-clicking on the icon and choosing Options  Keep in Dock          Tip  If you want to run VS Code from the terminal  append the following to your    bash profile file     zshrc in case you use zsh    code      VSCODE CWD   PWD  open -n -b  com microsoft VSCode  --args             Now  you can simply type code   in any folder to start editing files   in that folder       Tip  You can also add it to VS Code Insiders build by changing  com microsoft VSCodeInsiders   Also if you don t to type the whole word code  just change it to c       Linux         Download Visual Studio Code for Linux    Make a new folder and extract VSCode-linux-x64 zip inside that folder    Double click on Code to run Visual Studio Code          Tip  If you want to run VS Code from the terminal  create the following link substituting  path to vscode Code with the absolute   path to the Code executable  sudo ln -s  path to vscode Code  usr local bin code       Now  you can simply type code   in any folder to start editing files   in that folder

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If you install VS CODE using snap  You will need to add  snap bin in your PATH environment variable  so - open your  bashrc or  zshrc and add   snap bin in your PATH environment variable reload terminal  and than code comand will start it

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