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'!' always uses the system shell - no way to change it
See original GitHub issueRunning !ls works perfectly on native Jupyter, but throws a command not found error in VS Code.
However, I am able to run !dir cmd/PowerShell commands on VS Code as well as native Jupyter.
Is there a way for me to change this setting, such that I ask Jupyter running on VS Code to let me run UNIX commands (which Git Bash/WSL allows)?
Environment data
- VS Code version: 1.54.3
- Jupyter Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): v2021.3.684299474
- Python Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): v2021.3.680753044
- OS (Windows | Mac | Linux distro) and version: Windows 10.0.19042 Build 19042
- Python and/or Anaconda version: Python 3.6.6
- Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): N/A
- Jupyter server running: Local
Expected Output
What I see
Issue Analytics
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- Created 2 years ago
- Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)
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It’s an enhancement because it’s behaving as designed. The enhancement would be to support that jupyter config setting so the user could change what shell is used.
Closing this issue as this is how Jupyter works, and we don’t have any plans to provide some functionality that would work differently in VS Code compared to Jupyter, specially when it comes to execution of code against a kernel.
This is something that’s handled natively by the IPython kernel, hence would require changes upstream