How to open a directory in PHPStorm or IntelliJ (or any JetBrains IDE) from the command line?

Question

Is there a way to open up a directory in PHPStorm or an equivalent Jetbrains IDE from the command line? For example, in Textmate, I would just do:

mate .

to open the working directory.

Answer 1

Use Tools -> Create command line launcher and then you can execute pstorm .

Answer 2

Here's how I got IntelliJ Command-line launcher to work with MAC Sierra (v 10.12.2).

This works with IntelliJ IDEA:

1. Tools -> Create Command-line Launcher..
2. Replace 'idea' in the string '/usr/local/bin/idea' with whatever you wish.
   (I use 'ij'), so for me its '/usr/local/bin/ij'.
3. Open your terminal
4. Navigate to the project/folder you want to open.

5. Write the chars you wrote after 'bin/' and then '.'

   For me its ij .

Answer 3

On OS X: open -a 'phpstorm.app' file-or-folder

Answer 4

For PhpStorm on Windows:

1. Add the PHPStorm's installation path to the Environment Variables "PATH" variable,

2. Scroll to the project folder in the command line

3. Issue the command phpstorm64.exe . if it is 64 bit machine or phpstorm.exe . for 32 bit machine.

I presume the same strategy will work for IntelliJ as well.

Answer 5

Here is the menu entry for v2016.2:

After that you can open folders with pstorm {myfolder}.

Hope it helps.

Answer 6

On MacOs edit ~./bash_profile add this line

alias pst="open -a 'phpstorm.app'"

Source it

source ~./bash_profile

Now you can open phpstorm in a directory with

pst .

Answer 7

If you see this message

for Intellij 2019.+ please check this answer. It uses Jetbrains toolbox. You just need to set path in Generate shell scripts option to /usr/local/bin/ in Jetbrains toolbox https://stackoverflow.com/a/56050914

and then just run idea . or pycharm . , phpstorm . etc.

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Answer 8

If you are using the JetBrains toolbox, you can configure the shell script for each IDE by going to

1. settings of the IDE in the toolbox (three dots > settings)

2. configuration

3. shell script name

Set it to any text you want

Answer 9

So the method Tools > Create command line launcher... no longer exists in OSX Intellij 2019.1

You can manually make this change via:

vim /usr/local/bin/idea

Change these lines appropriately from old version to new. should be something like this:

RUN_PATH = u'/Users/blahblah/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/IDEA-U/ch-0/191.6183.87/IntelliJ IDEA.app'
CONFIG_PATH = u'/Users/blahblah/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea2019.1'
SYSTEM_PATH = u'/Users/blahblah/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea2019.1'

If you don't know the new path then run something like:

ls /Users/blahblah/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/IDEA-U

or manually navigate via finder, then drag/drop the IntelliJ IDEA.app icon from finder into your cli to copy across the full path.

Answer 10

I`m using JetBrains Toolbox to get the latest updates. And the only solution which worked for me (macOS) is:

1. Add the following function into ~/.bash_profile

phpstorm-open-current-path() {
    PHP_STORM_CH=~/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/PhpStorm/ch-0
    PHP_STORM_LATEST_VERSION=$(ls -rA1 "${PHP_STORM_CH}" | head -1)
    open -a "${PHP_STORM_CH}/${PHP_STORM_LATEST_VERSION}/PhpStorm.app"
}

2. Reload the changes by opening a new terminal, or running the following command in the current one:

. ~/.bash_profile

3. Use it:

cd <PROJECT_DIR>
phpstorm-open-current-path

It should be pretty easy to adopt it for any other IDE/OS.

Answer 11

1- add the phpstorm installation path to the path system variable

2- in project folder in address bar type "cmd".

3- in cmd type "phpstorm64 .".

Answer 12

Here's how it did it on macOS:

1. navigate to /usr/local/bin directory in your terminal
2. create the file /usr/local/bin/idea. in the terminal paste: sudo vim idea
3. paste the following into the file (this was pulled from https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/working-with-the-ide-features-from-command-line.html#standalone):

#!/bin/sh

open -na "IntelliJ IDEA.app" --args "$@"

4. save file in vim (esc -> shift + : -> wq! -> enter)
5. change the file permissions of newly created file: sudo chmod 755 idea
6. in your terminal, navigate to the code directory you would like to open in intelliJ
7. type idea . and it should open entire directory in intelliJ

Hope this helps!