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Command Variable

Visual Studio Code provides variable substitution to be used in launch.json and tasks.json.

One of the variables allows the result of a command to be used with the following syntax: ${command:commandID}

If a command or variable is almost what you need you can use the transform command to perform a regular expression find-replace of the result.

Not all commands are supported yet in the web extension version. Supported commands are marked with : (Web)

Some commands can store/remember the result to be retrieved later in the session. If you want persistent storage have a look at the commandvariable.remember.persistent.file setting.

Table of contents

• Commands • Usage • Configuration / Settings • FileAsKey • File Content • File Content Key Value pairs • File Content JSON Property • File Content YAML Property • File Content Multiple Key-Values/Properties • File Content in Editor • Config Expression • JavaScript Expression • Pick File • Open Dialog • Save Dialog • number • remember • pickStringRemember • promptStringRemember • Multicursor and text • inTerminal • getClipboard • setClipboard • Transform • Transform::saveToFile • Variables • Variable Filters • Variables in Javascript expression • ${workspaceFolder} • ${workspaceFolderBasename} • ${selectedText} • ${pickStringRemember} • ${promptStringRemember} • ${pickFile} • ${openDialog} • ${saveDialog} • ${command} • ${transform} • ${remember} • checkEscapedUI • Workspace name in argument • UUID • dateTime • Credits

Commands

This extension provides a number of commands that give a result based on the current file or the workspace path or that produce a result based on arguments

• extension.commandvariable.file.relativeDirDots : The directory of the current file relative to the workspace root directory with dots as separator. Can be used to specify a Python module. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDots : The same result as ${relativeFile} but with dots as separator. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDotsNoExtension : The same result as ${relativeFile} but with dots as separator and no file extension. Can be used to specify a Python module. • extension.commandvariable.file.filePosix : The same result as ${file} but in Posix form. Directory separator '/', and drive designation as '/z/project/' • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirnamePosix : The same result as ${fileDirname} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname1Up : The directory path 1 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname2Up : The directory path 2 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname3Up : The directory path 3 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname4Up : The directory path 4 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname5Up : The directory path 5 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname1UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname1Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname2UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname2Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname3UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname3Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname4UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname4Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname5UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirname5Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname1Up : The directory path 1 Up of ${relativeFileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname2Up : The directory path 2 Up of ${relativeFileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname3Up : The directory path 3 Up of ${relativeFileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname4Up : The directory path 4 Up of ${relativeFileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname5Up : The directory path 5 Up of ${relativeFileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirnamePosix : The same result as ${relativeFileDirname} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname1UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname1Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname2UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname2Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname3UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname3Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname4UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname4Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname5UpPosix : The same result as ${extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFileDirname5Up} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.relativeFilePosix : The same result as ${relativeFile} but in Posix form. • extension.commandvariable.file.fileAsKey : Use part of the file path as a key in a map lookup. Can be used in lauch.json to select arguments based on filename, see example. • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirBasename : (Web) The basename of the ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirBasename1Up : (Web) The directory name 1 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirBasename2Up : (Web) The directory name 2 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirBasename3Up : (Web) The directory name 3 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirBasename4Up : (Web) The directory name 4 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.fileDirBasename5Up : (Web) The directory name 5 Up of ${fileDirname} • extension.commandvariable.file.content : The content of the…

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