Mac: Open Visual Studio Code Editor from Terminal

**Problem: **I use Visual Studio Code as my primary editor on my Mac. I’ve heard that there’s a way to open a directory in an editor through a Terminal command. How can I open a new editor window inside a directory from the command line?

**Solution: **

First, make sure that you already have the Visual Studio Code ‘code’ command installed in PATH. You can check this by:

• Open a terminal window
• Run ‘code -help’
• If you see a bunch of help printouts, it’s installed and you can skip to the last section.

If you did the above and saw something similar to ‘command code could not be found/resolved’, then code hasn’t been added to your path yet. To install it correctly:

• Open a Visual Studio Code window
• Open the Command Palette with CMD+SHIFT+P
• Type ‘Install’ and select “Shell command: Install ‘code’ command in PATH” - This will allow you to run the code command directly from terminal

Once you’ve finished the above, you’re now ready to open your first Visual Studio Code editor in a directory straight from the command line.

• Navigate to the directory you’d like to open an editor in
• Run ‘code .’ in Terminal