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as the current working directory (cwd) for the shell process. This may be
particularly useful in workspace settings if the root directory is not a
convenient cwd.
"terminal.integrated.cwd": "",   You will notice that it will not let you type here to change this setting. That is because you can't change the default setting. You instead need to change your personal settings. Here's how...  Click the pencil icon to the left of the this option and then the "Copy to Settings" option that pops-up. You should have a split screen in which the right side of the screen has the heading Place your settings here to overwrite the Default Settings. This is the correct place for you to make changes. You might already have a few personalized settings listed here. When you clicked "Copy to Settings" it automatically added this line for you: "terminal.integrated.cwd": ""  Notice that whichever item is last in this list will not have a trailing comma but any items before it in the list will require one. FYI: you could have simply typed or copy/pasted this into the personalized settings yourself, but following these steps is the process to learn for changing other preferences as needed.  Now you are able to type to set the path you want to use. Make sure to use \\ in place of \ and you do not need the trailing \ . For example including this line would always start your terminal in the baz directory: {
    "terminal.integrated.cwd": "C:\\Users\\foo\\bar\\baz"
}   To apply the change, simply Save and restart Visual Studio Code .   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The following worked: "terminal.integrated.cwd": "/Users/MyUserName/dev/ProjectName/WebUI".  Replace MyUserName of course with your own.  Quick way to get the path on mac is to make sure "Show Path Bar" is selected in finder view menu, and then right click on the last folder at the bottom of finder, and "Copy FolderName as Path Name" .  Then you can use that path in the json settings of vscode.  Hope this helps someone. – (/users/2349252/firecape) (726 reputation) firecape  Commented (2018-11-27 05:57:57Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Nov 27, 2018 at 5:57        I just found terminal.integrated.cwd and it contained the offending location that I had set previously. I just hit delete and pressed enter and default behaviour was restored. The long answer didn't need completing. – (/users/866333/john) (6,708 reputation) John  Commented (2023-01-05 12:32:14Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Jan 5, 2023 at 12:32        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)             This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:5939034e8af18fa8,10:1742105533,16:22933671ac39a139,8:57868831,47025de14f9ac55bb5f7c52ecdba8dfe5721814b7e392eef62a99115bc26abe1) 34  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:4c097c4b2bca1893,10:1742105533,16:24e229c1b8878daa,8:57868831,80f136e5de9f0e40d866d37b18167df20f51f741e6a85679d94832d9dc744499)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/57868831/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    As others have already explained, you can add a setting to change the default folder for your integrated terminal to start in. This setting also accepts Visual Studio Code variables, so to make a relative path from the root folder of your workspace you can use ${workspaceFolder} . For example, for your terminal to always start in the subfolder mystart , your setting would be: "terminal.integrated.cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/mystart"     (/a/57868831) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     (/posts/57868831/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:af173d42941e7197,10:1742105533,16:756e00ab5ece49cc,8:57868831,854f64746e6409998f0d7e5312c09e6fc8c14fd1b02bfc2e74d70cefff047009)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/57868831/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2019-12-16 19:01:30Z) Dec 16, 2019 at 19:01    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) (Peter Mortensen's user avatar)    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) Peter Mortensen (reputation score 31,616) 31.6k (22 gold badges)  22  22 gold badges (110 silver badges)  110  110 silver badges (133 bronze badges)  133  133 bronze badges     answered (2019-09-10 10:27:01Z) Sep 10, 2019 at 10:27   (/users/4379151/erik-kalkoken) (Erik Kalkoken's user avatar)    (/users/4379151/erik-kalkoken) Erik Kalkoken Erik Kalkoken (reputation score 32,884) 32.9k (8 gold badges)  8  8 gold badges (95 silver badges)  95  95 silver badges (127 bronze badges)  127  127 bronze badges        3 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   Definitely the best answer. Useful information: besides restarting VS Code, always make sure you start a new terminal session because VS Code might restore your previous session and the working directory you had back then. – (/users/12015105/gyohza) (836 reputation) gyohza  Commented (2022-06-09 13:07:28Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Jun 9, 2022 at 13:07      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   Great answer.   FYI on a windows machine I had to use double backslash instead of forwardslash. – (/users/7827240/richardprocter) (215 reputation) richardprocter  Commented (2022-09-07 12:14:18Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Sep 7, 2022 at 12:14        I put ${workspaceFolder} there and it works on local projects.  It does not work on remote ssh projects.  It used to work.  I just noticed this change yesterday (12/10/2024).  Anyone else experienced this? – (/users/1272421/mark-hahn) (495 reputation) mark-hahn  Commented (2024-12-12 00:53:36Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Dec 12, 2024 at 0:53        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:671ba7c9520b67f1,10:1742105533,16:15a4247b6933c57f,8:61694300,3c20e1579b96f2a6dfdc73492b34ee19593ed7fe175225f6654837edcf8a4a77) 22  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:86ccf257d7672fb7,10:1742105533,16:556cce69a49e1188,8:61694300,e8a19a46fa4e2551c220c3286905b0171072bb3369561d1911947eec1d50b47a)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/61694300/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    Thanks for the original answer from Peter. Definitely helped !
It has now slightly changed in more recent versions of VS Code.  Navigate to File -> Preferences -> Settings  Type cwd in search  Choose Terminal > Integrated: Cwd settings  Type the default path you want to set in the text block below (simply, no need for double hashes to escape)  No need for saving, It's automatic  Restart VS Code  (https://i.sstatic.net/Qrn9S.jpg) terminal cwd screen     (/a/61694300) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     (/posts/61694300/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:422c8ceb2d3d2faa,10:1742105533,16:c76cf3df8f0f50e3,8:61694300,c3c46600888474c42ff0080ba77b55afaff30e7e4b5eb29c0c3ceb35aaabf57c)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2020-05-09 09:09:44Z) May 9, 2020 at 9:09   (/users/13408296/marc) (marc's user avatar)    (/users/13408296/marc) marc marc (reputation score) 291 (2 silver badges)  2  2 silver badges (4 bronze badges)  4  4 bronze badges        1   this is the one that is working at 23/03/21 look at the picture, if not in the box just type your path. example: C:\Users\rober\onedrive nothing more – (/users/11318571/rob) (131 reputation) ROB  Commented (2021-03-23 15:43:59Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Mar 23, 2021 at 15:43        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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Msys2 On windows, when using Msys2 you may want to start the shell bash as me. Symptom I encountered the same effect after setting up Msys2. First it worked, but after some time (may be just after restart of vscode) it didn't work anymore. The initial directory was always ~ . Bash prompt: <user>@<computer> MSYS ~   Cause I had an incomplete setup in file C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json : {
...
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "bash (MSYS2)",
"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
    "PowerShell": {
        ...
    },
    "Command Prompt": {
        "path": [
            "${env:windir}\\Sysnative\\cmd.exe",
            "${env:windir}\\System32\\cmd.exe"
        ],
        "args": [],
        "icon": "terminal-cmd"
    },
    "Git Bash": {
        "source": "Git Bash"
    },
    "bash (MSYS2)": {
        "path": "C:\\msys...\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
        "args": [
            "--login",
            "-i"
        ]
    }
},
...   Cure I found this documentation (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/profiles#_msys2) here . Hence, I just added "env": { "CHERE_INVOKING": "1" } entry to entry "bash (MSYS2)" as shown below: "bash (MSYS2)": {
    "path": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
    "args": [
        "--login",
        "-i"
    ], 
    "env": { "CHERE_INVOKING": "1" }
}   Why this? Explanation (https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Launchers/) here . Other terminals For a lot of terminals it is documented (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/profiles) here , as well. Today the following are documented: PowerShell zsh Cmder Cygwin Git Bash WSL    (/a/78348121) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     (/posts/78348121/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:2c4422210330d8f8,10:1742105533,16:ff3d72d82f243eb4,8:78348121,fd7cc95452c80172c4f437839471a9470d7acc24486514a7287e26815491dd58)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2024-04-18 14:09:46Z) Apr 18, 2024 at 14:09   (/users/10758252/j%c3%b6rg-br%c3%bcggmann) (Jörg Brüggmann's user avatar)    (/users/10758252/j%c3%b6rg-br%c3%bcggmann) Jörg Brüggmann Jörg Brüggmann (reputation score) 706 (7 silver badges)  7  7 silver badges (19 bronze badges)  19  19 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:883775fc812e80dc,10:1742105533,16:4026d736db94bcb8,8:78429924,5a8e36c7a9df46556e1ce83534ce142691abf76ee5c1feee8a54a63191357006) 1  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:d0b40f47a20c2ed9,10:1742105533,16:583f765e893b263c,8:78429924,f0803335333acae15fb0c761c3d51fe1a6313c093d822669b725b168534cd5f7)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/78429924/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    Go your VsCode:
in with Ctrol + , keybinding go to Settings copypaste this on the search bar: @feature:terminal cwd   In Terminal > Integrated: Cwd , put this: ${fileDirname}   source: (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/variables-reference) https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/variables-reference    (/a/78429924) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     (/posts/78429924/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:ad21470e340b955a,10:1742105533,16:9be4daa588bc31c9,8:78429924,bf5c0bb3340bda103e3c6f6ef99719487c519231e90b4d6cd248c3fa118b70cb)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2024-05-04 17:55:20Z) May 4, 2024 at 17:55   (/users/19402699/hiyorijl) (hiyorijl's user avatar)    (/users/19402699/hiyorijl) hiyorijl hiyorijl (reputation score) 76 (5 bronze badges)  5  5 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:8454f07584fab9a2,10:1742105533,16:5dd8d6d7ae70d9f6,8:45330147,0f2e9aa379cee0f260d13fae39ff8b965407ab537273b73dfe7836a4b3e67f50) 0  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:b07ba70fb1e07ac4,10:1742105533,16:209d2aa128564f0b,8:45330147,665f23463dc3b319ec55858020dd58910418c1f163ca4dabbe6d7c3a244a8330)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/45330147/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    The below option will help you do this.  Menu File → Preferences → Settings .  Add or edit the below setting.  terminal.integrated.shell.windows": ""  From the next terminal it will be reflected. And add file (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)#Setting_inheritable_environment_variables) .profile  to your default shell, and add the default path to it. More information can be found 
at (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal) Integrated Terminal  .   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To list all of your PowerShell profiles, try the command Get-ChildItem -Path $PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts,$PROFILE.AllUsersCurrentHost,$PROFILE.CurrentUserAllHosts,$PROFILE.CurrentUserCurrentHost -Filter *.ps1   and look through any items that come up to see if any of them are changing your default path.  Also, having two PowerShell profiles is not a good idea, so combined them into the one pointed to by $PROFILE (the other was in the same directory named profile.ps1 . Once this is ironed out, setting something like "terminal.integrated.cwd": "${workspaceFolder}" should work.   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