Small script to fix symlinked paths when opening VS Code from within WSL

code.sh

# Modify VS Code CLI to expand symlinks before opening, to fix git status highlighting
code() {
    # Set the path to VS Code
    code_path="/mnt/c/Users/Jacob/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code";

    # Store converted arguments
    converted=""

    # Loop through all passed arguments
    for arg in "$@"
    do
        # Retain line and colum number information
        pattern="([^:]*)((:[0-9]+)+)?";

        [[ $arg =~ $pattern ]]

        prefix=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
        suffix=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}

        if [[ -d $prefix ]] || [[ -f $prefix ]]
        then
            # Expand paths, resolving symlinks
            converted="$converted $(readlink -f $prefix)$suffix"
        else
            # Retain non-path arguments
            converted="$converted $arg"
        fi
    done

    # Reconstruct the command
    "$code_path" $converted
}