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Visual Studio Code – What ways are there to run a Bash script in VS Code, and how many user actions do they each require?

I have this simple bash script

#!/bin/bash

echo "Hello, World!"

I love how we can can right click on python code, and run it in a Terminal.
But I can’t find way to do the same for bash scripts.

Can someone help?
I open terminal tab, and copy file path, and type ./filePath.sh.

But my goal is to find a more efficient way.

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    Terminal: Run Active File In Active Terminal

    There’s the Terminal: Run Active File In Active Terminal command, which you can run from that command palette. That’s either three or one user actions: It’s three if you open the command palette via keyboard shortcut, type out part of the command name, and then press enter, but it’s one if you bind the command to a keyboard shortcut (the command ID is workbench.action.terminal.runActiveFile). This will work for your case because you have a shebang in your script file. Just make sure you have execute permissions for the script (you can add such a permission with chmod +x file.sh).

    Copy relative path and paste into terminal

    You could just open up an integrated terminal in VS Code with a Bash shell, (which VS Code will open and navigate the current working directory to the workspace folder’s path), and then just do ./relative/path/to/script.sh. You can use command palette commands or keyboard shortcuts to open up the terminal too (View: Toggle Terminal, bound to ctrl+` by default on Windows and Linxu), and also to copy the relative path to the file (relative to the workspace folder) (File: Copy Relative Path of Active File bound to ctrl+shift+alt+c by default on Windows and Linux). So this is approximately four actions: copy path, open terminal, paste, hit enter.

    Task

    You can write a task for it:

    {
   "label": "shell",
   "type": "shell",
   "command": "${workspaceFolder}/test.sh",
   "problemMatcher": []
},

    You can run tasks with the Tasks: Run Task command in the command palette, or associate a keyboard shortcut to it (workbench.action.tasks.runTask). If you bind a keyboard shortcut, this’ll be approximately two to three actions: open the tasks selection menu, select the task (no need if it was the last task you used- that’ll be selected by default), hit enter.

    Extensions

    You can also take a look at installing extensions related to Bash. One extension I’ve heard people use for running things (but don’t use myself) is formulahendry.code-runner. Just searching "Bash" in the Extension View, I also saw dominic-valerio.bash-runner.

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    Hit ctrl+shift+p, and begin typing in Terminal: Run Active File In Active Terminal.

    If It says permission denied or similar, you may have to make it executable:

    
chmod +x file.sh

    Note that this only has to be done once, if at all.

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