Is there a way of opening Visual Studio Code from MacOS terminal?

Question

I am used to opening Jupyter Notebook by simply typing 'jupyter notebook' in the terminal but was wondering whether there is a way of doing the same for for VS Code? (Tried opening it the same way as Jupyter but has not worked). Thank you!

Answer 1

Yes, you can open VSCode from the terminal but first, you need to add it to the PATH in MacOS

For zsh shell, run the following

cat << EOF >> ~/.zprofile
Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="\$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
EOF

If you use bash shell change the first line to cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile

Now you can, open VSCode from the terminal by using the following commands

• To open VSCode with the previous session - code

• To open VScode in the current directory - code.

• To open a file in VSCode - code filename

More command-line options can be found here VSCode CMD Line