for all those people who use VSCode Insiders normally to switch very quickly to the stable version when needed just by launching VSCode stable

code

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# use VSCode Insiders by default, but not if VSCode Stable is already running

# [V] is neccessary so grep doesn't find itself...
VS_IS_RUNNING=$(ps -A | grep "/[V]isual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron" | wc -l)

if [ $VS_IS_RUNNING -ne 0 ]; then
  /usr/local/bin/code "$@"
else
  /usr/local/bin/code-insiders "$@"
fi