Get "Execute a shell script" working

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I think you'll find that it's always the same issue when a question title includes "Shell Script". (The question is asked dozens of times every year, and you will find quite a lot of coverage of it here).

The point is that (fortunately for debugging, script sharing etc etc) an Execute Shell Script action gets a pristine vanilla instance of the shell.

It doesn't depend on, and not related to, the instance set up by other applications like Terminal.app, and it needs you to either:

  • Define a value for $PATH which includes the path to application which you want to call,
  • or directly supply the full path to applications like code

On this system, for example, I would replace:

code .

with

/usr/local/bin/code .

For a more generic and local approach, see, for example:

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