"code ." Not working in Command Line for Visual Studio Code on OSX/Mac

1. Make sure you drag Visual Studio Code app into the -Applications- folder

Otherwise (as noted in the comments) you'll have to go through this process again after reboot


2. Next, open Visual Studio Code

Open the Command Palette via (⇧⌘P) and type shell command to find the Shell Command:

> Install 'code' command in PATH** command.

![Command Palette

After executing the command, restart the terminal for the new $PATH value to take effect. You'll be able to simply type 'code .' in any folder to start editing files in that folder. The "." Simply means "current directory"

(Source: VS Code documentation)


NOTE: If you're running a build based off the OSS repository... You will need to run code-oss . @Dzeimsas Zvirblis


If you want to add it permanently:

Add this to your ~/.bash_profile, or to ~/.zshrc if you are running MacOS Catalina or later.

export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"

source: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac


Open the ~/.bashrc file using vi/vim $ vi ~/.bashrc

Enter the following by pressing i to insert:

code () { VSCODE_CWD="$PWD" open -n -b "com.microsoft.VSCode" --args $* ;}

Save the file using :wq

Reflect the settings in ~/.bashrc using the following command:

source ~/.bashrc