Add a `code-terminal` shell command to start a command in VSCode's terminal

[sofianegargouri]

Today we have a code shell command that allows us to open a directory directly into VSCode.

It would be awesome if we could have a code-terminal that would work like other terminal commands, and especially being able to start a terminal running a command, like we can find on xterm or gnome-terminal: https://askubuntu.com/a/46630

I have a few projects that need a few commands run in parallel to start (ie: starting Rails server, then Vite server, a docker-compose for databases).
That way I could write a kind-of tech-agnostic start.sh containing something like:

vscode-terminal -e "cd backend && docker compose up"
vscode-terminal -e "cd backend && rails s"
vscode-terminal -e "cd frontend && yarn start"

Today we have the Restore Terminals extension that is really vscode-dependent while having the CLI would allow us to either check if the command is available before starting it or using another command.

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Happy Coding!

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Happy Coding!

[meganrogge]

Thanks for the issue. I understand your use case and think that creating a tasks.json with a compound task would serve your puprose here. You can even set that task to run on folderOpen like this:

"runOptions": {
                "runOn": "folderOpen"
            }