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Java It's All About the POM

Posted by johnhunter
johnhunter
12,964 Points

Command line to open the maven project in Idea?

Hey Chris! How did you configure that nifty "idea ." command to open the maven project from the command line in Idea? I can't seem to find any solid answers on the web.

johnhunter
johnhunter
12,964 Points

Ok I think I figured it out. I added this alias command to my ~/.bash_profile

alias idea="open -b com.jetbrains.intellij"

You can then navigate to a folder in your terminal and use the same command to open the file

idea .

1 Answer

andrewvillazon
andrewvillazon
5,553 Points
andrewvillazon
andrewvillazon
5,553 Points

Another option: In Intellij IDEA (with a project open) go to 'Tools' -> 'Create Command-line Launcher'.