Windows Bash and Visual Studio Code: How can I launch bash as a run task?

Question

how can I run the Windows Bash from Visual Studio code as a run task?

Here are some of my many attempts at tasks.json to do this.

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Answer 1

On my Windows 10 machine that has a freshly installed bash, this works fine for me:

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "bash",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "args": [ "shellscript.sh" ],
    "showOutput": "always"
}

The shebang version of shellscript.sh as command doesn't work for me.

You can also use bash -c "" to run an arbitrary command:

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "bash",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "args": ["-c", "echo \"test\""],
    "showOutput": "always"
}