How to open a directory in PHPStorm or IntelliJ (or any JetBrains IDE) from the command line? - 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:
Tools -> Create Command-line Launcher..
Replace 'idea' in the string '/usr/local/bin/idea' with whatever you wish.
(I use 'ij'), so for me its '/usr/local/bin/ij'.
Open your terminal
Navigate to the project/folder you want to open.
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:
Add the PHPStorm's installation path to the Environment Variables "PATH" variable,
Scroll to the project folder in the command line
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

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.

Answer 7

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 8

If you are using the JetBrains toolbox, you can configure the shell script for each IDE by going to
settings of the IDE in the toolbox (three dots > settings)
configuration
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:
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"
}
Reload the changes by opening a new terminal, or running the following command in the current one:
. ~/.bash_profile
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 .".