VSCode: How do I find what my workspace folder is

Question

Is there a simple command that will tell me what my workspace folder is? I tried ${workspaceFolder} in the terminal but that didn\'t work.

Answer 1

VSCode 1.52 (Nov. 2020) will simplify that use case.

Before:

/ws
   /.vscode
        launch.json
/proj_a
   /scr
/proj_b
   /scr
/proj_c
   /scr
/proj_d
   /scr

Where /ws and /proj_* are all folders added to create the multi folder workspace. But ${workspaceFolder} always is /ws

${workspaceFolder:proj_a} is possible but not convenient, when you have a debug configuration in /ws/.vscode/launch.json that uses ${file} and you want to be able to use this configuration on all files in your multi-root setup.
And in order to establish the correct working directory for your debuggee you need a way to derive the workspace folder path from ${file}.

Introducing ${fileWorkspaceFolder}.

With VSCode 1.52, see:

• issue 84162: "Get the workspace folder of the current file "
• issue 108907: "Multi root workspace - Variable for the current file's workspace directory"
• commit 876d1f0: introduce new variable ${fileWorkspaceFolder}

That will complement the Predefined variables examples.