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a one line shell / applescript to open VS Code in current Finder window
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Have you ever been tooling through your file system in Finder and you get to a directory where you would like to open VScode to edit the files there.
You could grab the proxy icon and drag it to the VScode icon on your Dock or you could go up one directory and then drag the folder icon to the dock and there are probably other ways.

But I wanted to be able to do this with a single button press on my Streamdeck.
So I made this one line shell script and wired it to a Streamdeck button:

/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code $(osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to return POSIX path of (target of front Finder window as text)')
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