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Tip of the day — use VS Code from the command line

You’re probably used to calling up vi from the command line for a quick file edit, but if you need a little more (and want to actually leave the editor too!) try calling Visual Studio Code from the Mac, Linux or Windows command line instead!

code . <filename> will start a new VScode instance, code <filename> will open the file in an existing VSCode instance. More VSCode command line options and tips here.

https://gph.is/2gv8DSc

Visual Studio Code is free and open source. Check it out here:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

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Brian is a Java Champion and a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, helping developers get the most out of Azure. Before Joining Microsoft, he was a program manager, evangelist, solution architect, consultant, developer, and author at IBM, Deloitte, and other companies. Find him on most of the socials and GitHub at @bbenz. A current list of Brian’s talks can be found at https://aka.ms/brianspeaking

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