Visual Studio Code not opening with 'code' command

Question

When I try to open VSCode from the command line with code ., I get the error ./MacOS/Electron: No such file or directory. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You can try and just let vscode uninstall / reinstall the command from the command palette, like this:

Answer 2

do you get this pop up when you try to install?

EACCES: permission denied, unlink '/usr/local/bin/code'

If so, what worked for me was uninstalling via the shift, cmd, P, dropdown in vscode and re-installing. hope that helps

Answer 3

To avoid changing VS Code files, you can add file named python to your path that just execs python3. For example, create a new file named /usr/local/bin/python:

#!/bin/sh

# work around missing `python` executable by calling `python3` 
exec python3 "$@"

Then chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/python

After quitting and relaunching your shell to ensure paths are re-hashed, everything should work again.

Answer 4

If you're getting following Error:

/usr/local/bin/code: line 6: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/code: line 10: ./MacOS/Electron: No such file or directory

Update python to python3 in following File:

/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code

Answer 5

For people who face the issue of -bash: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/: is a directory despite following the solution by joaomoreno https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3941, please add code at the end of the file path: alias code="/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code"

Answer 6

Open the file located at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code and change python to /usr/bin/python.

Credit to joaomoreno for the solution.