"code" command does not work in Powershell

Question

"code" command for VSCode does not work on Windows

• Have freshly reinstalled VSCode

• Confirmed permission of the scripts: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//bb613481(v=vs.85)?redirectedfrom=MSDN#how-to-allow-scripts-to-run

• "code" command does not do anything still:

  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon> set-executionpolicy remotesigned
  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code
  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon> Get-ExecutionPolicy
  RemoteSigned
  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon>
  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code
  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code .
  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon>
  

• Confirmed system env:

  (base) PS C:\Users\lemon> $env:PATH C:\Users\lemon\miniconda3;C:\Users\lemon\miniconda3\Library\mingw-w64\bin;C:\Users\lemon\miniconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\Users\lemon\miniconda3\Library\bin;C:\Users\lemon\miniconda3\Scripts;C:\Users\lemon\miniconda3\bin;C:\Users\lemon\miniconda3\condabin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\jdk-17.0.8.7-hotspot\bin;C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\dotnet;C:\platform-tools;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Nmap;C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin

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-Tried to invoke the script directly - no output.

(base) PS C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin> ls


    目录: C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin


Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----         2023/9/14      5:55           2067 code
-a----         2023/9/14      6:21       16738736 code-tunnel.exe
-a----         2023/9/14      5:55            167 code.cmd


(base) PS C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin> ./code.cmd
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin> ./code
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin>

Running Code.exe can correctly create the editor window

Help:About output:

Commit: abd2f3db4bdb28f9e95536dfa84d8479f1eb312d
Date: 2023-09-14T05:55:25.390Z
Electron: 25.8.1
ElectronBuildId: 23779380
Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
Node.js: 18.15.0
V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621

(base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code --disable-extensions
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code --verbose
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code --log debug
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon>```

The commands above seems have no output

(base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon> code | ps
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon> where code
(base) PS C:\Users\lemon> get-command code

CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Application     code.cmd                                           0.0.0.0    C:\Users\lemon\AppData\Local\Programs\...

May I get to know how to fix this?

Answer 1

For anyone suffering the same issue as I do --

The problem actually is caused by the uninstallation of the Anaconda package manager: Cmd crashes with exit code 1 after uninstalling anaconda

The process exited with code 1 is just too general and masked bunches of problem.