Max Trinidad explains how to get Powershell running with Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu:
Using VS Code Debug
First, we are going to use VS Code debug option to run PowerShell Out-Of-The-Box. This way we can be use debug to execute and step thru the PowerShell script code.
Open the folder were the scripts are going to be stored. The first time using the Debug it will ask to create the “launch.json” which is needed in order to execute and debug the script. Accept the default values as you can change them later if needed.
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