Open file at specific line in VSCode

Question

In this section: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_additional-command-line-arguments

It states you can use --goto to open a file at a specific line. I grep code with AstroGrep and every time I try to use the --goto argument VsCode fails to open.

An example argument i'm using which fails:

Code.exe --goto C:\filepath\filename.txt:450:11

or

Code.exe --goto "C:\file path\filename.txt":450:11

What is wrong with this file:line:column syntax? or is this a bug in vscode?

Thanks

Answer 1

Seems to be a known issue which was fixed a couple of days ago - see here

Workaround until next version:

• Use relative paths
• Use insider version of VSCode

Answer 2

Code.exe --goto "C:\file path\filename.txt:450:11" 

worked for me, take a closer look on the quotation marks.