Support piping text into the editor from the command line

[natesilva]

• VSCode Version: 1.7.1
• OS Version: macOS 10.12.1

With the code command installed in your PATH it should be possible to pipe text into the editor from the command line:

$ curl -L bing.com | code

In this example, I’d expect Code to open and show me the output of the curl command (which would be the HTML of the Bing home page).

This works with Sublime Text (subl command) and TextMate (mate command). It would be great if code did this too.

[melMass]

For now I use the following:

codepipe (file needs to be chmod +x and in your $PATH)

#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -t 0 ]; then
    	#set -- "${@}" $(cat)
		out=$(cat)

else
	echo "no pipe detected"
	exit 0

fi
if [ -z "${1}" ]; then
	echo "no filename provided"
	exit 0
fi
if [ -f "${1}" ]; then
	echo "file exists."
	exit 0

fi

echo ${out} > "${1}"
code "${1}"

usage:

curl -L bing.com | codepipe bing.html

[natesilva]

Dupe of #6161 which was closed today. 🎉