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Tommaso Bendinelli
Tommaso Bendinelli

Reputation: 611

Adding Visual Studio Code binary to the path in Mac, Command not found, although it is in the $PATH

I want to open Visual Studio Code with the terminal by writing code. I wrote the following line in the bash_profile 

export PATH="/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin:$PATH"

So that the PATH is updated with directory where the binary code is.

Unfortunately, I still get:

tommasos-mbp:~ tommaso$ code -bash: code: command not found

The weird thing is that the PATH have been correctly updated, indeed if a run in the terminal env, I get:

PATH=/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin:

Also if I run directly in the terminal 

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

Visual studio code opens perfectly.

What is wrong here?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5025

Answers (2)

AmirulOm
AmirulOm

Reputation: 123

In case there is new Mac user like me, there is a build-in option in vscode where it will automatically add vscode in the PATH environment variable so that you can access code through Terminal. Follow this Launching vscode from terminal in Mac OS documentation

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Upvotes: 6

l'L'l
l'L'l

Reputation: 47169

Lose the double-quotes around your export (the path is escaped, so you don't need them). Otherwise the terminal literally interprets your path as being /Applications/Visual\ Studio ... 

export PATH="/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin:$PATH"

Should be:

export PATH=/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin:$PATH

Upvotes: 4

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