How to call VS Code Editor from terminal / command line

Question

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

Answer 1

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