"code ." no longer working in WSL2 when attempting to open VSCode

Question

I type in the expected code. and get the following message:

Ive tried different "solutions" from other SO posts, but nothing has proven effective. This has just started happening today (8/8/22), and I didn't make any changes that I can recall. Any tips would be greatly appreciated on how to resolve this.

Answer 1

I had the same issue, and I finally got it working by reinstalling VS Code locally. Code was missing from my %PATH% environment variable, and I found the code command wasn't working locally either. I was able to fix this by reinstalling VS Code. I could probably have just added the installation directory to the %PATH% as well, but wanted to make sure everything was properly repaired with a fresh install.

The WSL init process appends the Windows %PATH% to the Linux $PATH by default, so terminating and restarting my WSL distro fixed the issue on WSL.