This is to emulat touch file.extention on Mac
copy NUL filename.txt
conda config --set auto_activate_base false
python3 -m venv env
This create a new virtual environment with files saved in the env directory in current path
This can be activated by source env/bin/activate
mv appname app #do this outside of VS code window otherwise permission denied app is the name of your app
find . -not -path "./.git/*" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/appname/app/g' # Rename all references to appname
grep -R appname * #Check that all files have been successfully renamed
python3 -m venv env #Create virtual environment, do this within root directory of project
source env/bin/activate #activate virtual environment