Open a new file in VS Code with contents

Question

I want to get some text from the output of a shell command and then open code to a new file with that contents.

My first attempt was to pipe the output directly into code, but this didn't work.

echo foo | code

My current "solution" is to redirect the output to a tmp file, open tmp in code, and then delete tmp.

echo foo > tmp; code tmp; rm tmp

This is tedious and has the ugly effect of showing that the file has been deleted in the tab:

There must be a better way.

Answer 1

Turns out there is! It's an advanced technique I like to call Reading the Error Message™. 🤦‍♀️

echo foo | code

Run with 'code -' to read output from another program (e.g. 'echo Hello World | code -').

The solution:

echo foo | code -

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