sudocode

#!/bin/bash
# This is a simple script that will allow you to edit non-owned/writable files with vscode without running vscode as sudo
# I put it in /home/$USER/bin/sudocode (run "source ~/.profile" to add ~/bin to your PATH)

{
    sourcepermissions=$(stat --format '%a' $1); \
    sourceuser=$(stat -c '%U' $1); \
    sourcegroup=$(stat -c '%G' $1); \
    sudo chmod 777 $1; \
    sudo chown "${USER}:${USER}" $1; \
    code -w $1; \
    sudo chown "${sourceuser}:${sourcegroup}" $1; \
    sudo chmod $sourcepermissions $1; \
} &