How to suppress shell output of Visual Studio Code in Windows Terminal using PowerShell?

Question

When I start vscode from powershell command line I get:

PS C:\Applications> Code
PS C:\Applications>
[main 2024年07月24日T14:05:08.273Z] update#setState disabled
[main 2024年07月24日T14:05:08.274Z] update#ctor - updates are disabled by user preference
[17084:0724/170510.787:ERROR:electron_api_app.cc(1268)] Failed to begin Jump List transaction.
[main 2024年07月24日T14:05:10.780Z] updateWindowsJumpList#setJumpList unexpected result: error

Namely the log of vscode is shown in the terminal.
Is there a way to prevent it?
Disconnect the VSCode process from the process it was launched from, but inherit all system variables.

Is there a general way to do so?

• squillman: I don't get any output when launching from command line. I wonder if you have an extension that has a log level set too high, or that is just too chatty? Maybe try code --log off? Although that might have further implications than what you are after.
• Avi T: I only have the Python extensions: MS Python, MS Pylance, MS Jupyter.
• Destroy666: Are you by any chance launching Code.exe instead of code.cmd? Try typing code.cmd instead
• Avi T: @Destroy666, I do launch Code.exe. I haven't seen code.cmd. Where is that?

Answer 1

The proper way to launch VSCode on Windows in CLI is with code.cmd. You are apparently running Code.exe for whatever reason.

code.cmd is under normal circumstances (default installation) in %PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.cmd and in path, unlike Code.exe, so that you can just use code.

See also documentation