How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow)

Adapted from [Archive.is] How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? – Stack Overflow, presuming that code is on the PATH:

1. From the command-line interface on MacOS, Linux, BSD or on Windows with git installed:
   

   code --list-extensions | xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension

2. From the command-line interface on MacOS, Linux, BSD or on Windows without git installed:
   

   code --list-extensions | % { "code --install-extension $_" }

   or, as I think, more clearly (see also [WayBack] syntax – What does “%” (percent) do in PowerShell? – Stack Overflow):

   code --list-extensions | foreach { "code --install-extension $_" }

   or even more explanatory:

   code --list-extensions | ForEach-Object { "code --install-extension $_" }

3. From the command-line interface on Windows as a plain cmd.exe command:
   

   @for /f %l in ('code --list-extensions') do @echo code --install-extension %l

4. On Windows as a plain cmd.exe batch file (in a .bat/.cmd script):
   

   @for /f %%l in ('code --list-extensions') do @echo code --install-extension %%l

5. The above two on Windows can also be done using PowerShell:
   

   PowerShell -Command "code --list-extensions | % { """""code --install-extension $_""""" }"

   Note that here too, the % can be expanded into foreach or ForEach-Object for clarity.

All of the above prepend “code --install-extension ” (note the trailing space) before each installed Visual Studio Code extension.

They all give you a list like this which you can execute on any machine having Visual Studio Code installed and its code on the PATH, and a working internet connection:

code --install-extension DavidAnson.vscode-markdownlint
code --install-extension ms-vscode.powershell
code --install-extension yzhang.markdown-all-in-onex

(This is about the minimum install for me to edit markdown documents and do useful things with PowerShell).

Of course you can pipe these to a text-file script to execute them later on.

The double-quote escaping is based on [Wayback/Archive.is] How to escape PowerShell double quotes from a .bat file – Stack Overflow:

you need to escape the " on the command line, inside a double quoted string. From my testing, the only thing that seems to work is quadruple double quotes """" inside the quoted parameter:

powershell.exe -command "echo '""""X""""'"

Via: [Archive.is] how to save your visual studio code extension list – Google Search

–jeroen