Cannot start cfn-lint in VSCode

Hello there!

I’ve installed cfn-lint with pip3: pip3 install cfn-lint --user

When I run cfn-lint --version, I get: cfn-lint 0.7.4 So the linter is working as expected in the terminal.

With vscode-fn-lint 0.2.2 version But when I load a CloudFormation script into VSCode, I get the following error: Unable to start cfn-lint (Error: spawn cfn-lint ENOENT). Is cfn-lint installed correctly?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Kind Regards, Tomislav

[kddejong]

By default it will look for cfn-lint in the PATHs available to VSCode. When installing it into user space you will need to make sure VSCode has that path available or manually specify the full path with a setting that is made available.

By default it will be this:

"cfnLint.path": "cfn-lint"

An example of hardcoding the path:

"cfnLint.path": "/Users/userid/Library/Python/3.6/bin/cfn-lint"

[polarizeme]

Can someone help how to hardcode the path “cfnLint.path”: “/Users/userid/Library/Python/3.6/bin/cfn-lint”

In VSCode, go into the extensions sidebar, click the settings gear on the CloudFormation Linter extension, select extension settings, then define the path in the settings file or the applicable settings field in the GUI. Hope this helps!