Zsh function to invoke vscode remote

remote-code.zsh

code () {
	local script=$(echo ~/.vscode-server/bin/*/bin/code(*ocNY1)) 
	if [[ -z ${script} ]]
	then
		echo "VSCode remote script not found"
		exit 1
	fi
	local socket=$(echo /run/user/$UID/vscode-ipc-*.sock(=ocNY1)) 
	if [[ -z ${socket} ]]
	then
		echo "VSCode IPC socket not found"
		exit 1
	fi
	export VSCODE_IPC_HOOK_CLI=${socket} 
	${script} $*
}

Thank you for great post & gist. This will help me a lot.

However, I found that current script results in error like below with zsh version zsh 5.0.5 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)

zsh: unknown file attribute: Y

I had to change ocNY1 to oc[1]N.

what is oc[1]N and what is the equivalent of it in bash

what is oc[1]N and what is the equivalent of it in bash

oc sorts the item with respect to inode change time. And only get the first item by [1]. N sets the NULL_GLOB option for the current pattern.

So the pattern basically tries to get the most recently created/modified file.

I have no idea about the equivalent of it in bash since I'm no expert on shell scripts. Sorry for that.

Instead of using an echo with a glob you could try using ls and head. Something like:

local script=$(ls -1t ~/.vscode-server/bin/*/bin/code 2> /dev/null | head -1)

I haven't tested it but that should list list all of the matching files in time order with the most recent at the top, suppress any errors (for example if the glob fails) and then take just the first. It won't do the other things that the zsh glob is doing like checking that the file is executable, but that is just a nice sanity check. Bash doesn't seem to do anything clever with filename expansion, sadly: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Filename-Expansion.html