Run / Open VSCode from Mac Terminal

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According to the docs on Launching from the command line:

  1. Open Visual Studio Code
  2. Open the command pallette with Command + Shift + P (or F1)
  3. Type Shell in command palette
  4. Select Shell Command: Install code in PATH from suggested list

Open VSCode via Terminal/Command Prompt

That’s it.

Now open your terminal type.

$ code .

To make this change persist after restart on MacOS

Many Mac users find this is forgotten and needs to be re-applied after any restart. This may happen if MacOS has applied the quarantine attribute to VS Code, which the OS uses for the “Are you sure?” notice applied on first using apps downloaded from the internet.

To check if this attribute is applied, look for com.apple.quarantine in the list returned by this command (changing the path if that’s not where you installed it):

xattr "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app"

If that does return com.apple.quarantine, you can remove the attribute using the same command with the -d flag (alongside -r to recursively remove it from all contained files and sudo to allow the change):

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app"

…then do Shell Command : Install code in PATH as above after the attribute has been removed, and it should persist after restart.

Credit: derflounder.wordpress.com article linked to by RicardoVallejo in this comment.

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