Launch Pycharm from command line terminal

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I want to try out PyCharm for sage mathematics development   Normally I run eclipse to do sage development  but now I want to try it with PyCharm   To launch eclipse with sage environment variables  in command line I normally do the following   sage -sh cd  path to eclipse   eclipse   The first line loads the sage environment variables  the remainder launches eclipse   How can I do the same thing for pyCharm    note I am using a Mac and Ubuntu for sage development  the commands above are agnostic to both OSes    Link 1 is close to the solution I am looking for  however I cannot find a pyCharm sh anywhere  Link 2  Jetbrains does not give clear instructions either

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Use Tools -  Create Command-line Launcher which will install a python script where you can just launch the current working folder using charm    Very important   Anytime you upgrade your pyCharm you have to re-create that command line tool since its just a python script that points to a pyCharm configuration which might be outdated and will cause it to fail when you attempt to run charm

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You can launch Pycharm from Mac terminal using the open command  Just type open  path to App  Applications  ls -lrt PyCharm  CE app  total 8 drwxr-xr-x  71 amit  admin  2414 Sep 24 11 08 lib drwxr-xr-x   4 amit  admin   136 Sep 24 11 08 help drwxr-xr-x  12 amit  admin   408 Sep 24 11 08 plugins drwxr-xr-x  29 amit  admin   986 Sep 24 11 08 license drwxr-xr-x   4 amit  admin   136 Sep 24 11 08 skeletons -rw-r--r--   1 amit  admin    10 Sep 24 11 08 build txt drwxr-xr-x   6 amit  admin   204 Sep 24 11 12 Contents drwxr-xr-x  14 amit  admin   476 Sep 24 11 12 bin drwxr-xr-x  31 amit  admin  1054 Sep 25 21 43 helpers  Applications   Applications  open PyCharm  CE app

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To open PyCharm from the terminal in Ubuntu 16 04  cd into    installation home  bin   which in my case was   home nikhil pycharm-community-2018 1 1 bin    and then type     pycharm sh

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pycharm download  amp  Open in UBUNTU  Download    download pycharm linux version here   https   www jetbrains com pycharm download  section linux Extract the download the downloaded tar file using    tar -xvf pycharm-Example-tar gz   Open    Navigate to bin directory in the extracted folder  run     pycharm sh

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This worked for me on my 2017 imac macOS Mojave  Version 10 14 3     Open your    bash profile  nano    bash profile Append the alias  alias pycharm  open  Applications PyCharm  CE app  Update terminal  source    bash profile Assert that it works  pycharm

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Inside the IDE  you can click in      Tools Create Command-line Launcher

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Update  It is now possible to create command line launcher automatically from JetBrains Toolbox  This is how you do it    Open up the toolbox window  Go to the gear icon in the upper right  the settings window for toolbox itself   Turn on Generate shell scripts  Fill the Shell script location textbox with the location where you want the launchers to reside  You have to do this manually it will not fill automatically at this time    On Mac the location could be  usr local bin  For the novices  you can use any path inside the PATH variable or add a new path to the PATH variable in your bash profile  Use echo  PATH to see which paths are there   Note  It did not work right away for me  I had to fiddle around a little before the scripts were generated  You can go to the gearbox of the IDEA  PyCharm for example  and see change the launcher name  So for PyCharm  the default name is pycharm but you can change this to whatever you prefer   Original answer  If you do not use the toolbox you can still use my original answer     For some reason  the Create Command Line Launcher is not available anymore in 2019 1    Because it is now part of JetBrains Toolbox  This is how you can create the script yourself   If you already used the charm command before use type -a charm to find the script  Change the pycharm version in the file paths  Note that the numbering in the first variable RUN PATH is different  You will have to look this up in the dir yourself   RUN PATH   u  Users boatfolder Library Application Support JetBrains Toolbox apps PyCharm-P ch-0 191 6183 50 PyCharm app  CONFIG PATH   u  Users boatfolder Library Preferences PyCharm2019 1  SYSTEM PATH   u  Users boatfolder Library Caches PyCharm2019 1    If you did not use the charm command before  you will have to create it   Create the charm file somewhere like this   usr local bin charm  Then add this code  change version number to your version as explained above       usr bin env python   - - coding  utf-8 - -  import socket import struct import sys import os import time    see com intellij idea SocketLock for the server side of this interface  RUN PATH   u  Users boatfolder Library Application Support JetBrains Toolbox apps PyCharm-P ch-0 191 6183 50 PyCharm app  CONFIG PATH   u  Users boatfolder Library Preferences PyCharm2019 1  SYSTEM PATH   u  Users boatfolder Library Caches PyCharm2019 1    def print usage cmd       print   Usage  n                   0  -h   -    --help n                   0   project dir  n                   0   -l --line line   project dir --temp-project  file  line  n                   0  diff  lt left gt   lt right gt  n                   0  merge  lt local gt   lt remote gt   base   lt merged gt    format cmd     def process args argv       args           skip next   False     for i  arg in enumerate argv 1             if arg     -h  or arg     -   or arg     --help               print usage argv 0               exit 0          elif i    0 and  arg     diff  or arg     merge  or arg     --temp-project                args append arg          elif arg     -l  or arg     --line               args append arg              skip next   True         elif skip next              args append arg              skip next   False         else              path   arg             if     in arg                  file path  line number   arg rsplit      1                  if line number isdigit                        args append  -l                       args append line number                      path   file path             args append os path abspath path        return args   def try activate instance args       port path   os path join CONFIG PATH   port       token path   os path join SYSTEM PATH   token       if not  os path exists port path  and os path exists token path            return False      try          with open port path  as pf              port   int pf read            with open token path  as tf              token   tf read       except  ValueError           return False      s   socket socket       s settimeout 0 3      try          s connect   127 0 0 1   port       except  socket error  IOError           return False      found   False     while True          try              path len   struct unpack   gt h   s recv 2   0              path   s recv path len  decode  utf-8               if os path abspath path     os path abspath CONFIG PATH                   found   True                 break         except  socket error  IOError               return False      if found          cmd    activate     token     0    os getcwd       0      0  join args          if sys version info major  gt   3  cmd   cmd encode  utf-8           encoded   struct pack   gt h   len cmd     cmd         s send encoded          time sleep 0 5     don t close the socket immediately         return True      return False   def start new instance args       if sys platform     darwin           if len args   gt  0              args insert 0   --args           os execvp   usr bin open     -a   RUN PATH    args      else          bin file   os path split RUN PATH  1          os execv RUN PATH   bin file    args    ide args   process args sys argv  if not try activate instance ide args       start new instance ide args

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Steps for someone using zsh on Mac    emacs    zshrc amp  Put this in zshrc---  alias pycharm   Applications PyCharm CE app Contents MacOS pycharm  source    zshrc Launch by typing pycharm in command window

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Easy solution without need for pathes   open -b com jetbrains pycharm    You can set it as alias for every-day easier usage  put to your  bash rc etc     alias pycharm  open -b com jetbrains pycharm    Usage   pycharm   pycharm file py

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The included utility that installs to  usr local bin charm did not work for me on OS X  so I hacked together this utility instead  It actually works      usr bin env bash  if   -z   1    then   echo      echo  Usage  charm  lt filename gt     exit fi FILENAME  1  function myreadlink           cd   dirname  1            or  cd   1       echo  PWD   basename  1    or  echo  PWD   1             FULL FILE  myreadlink  FILENAME     Applications PyCharm  CE app Contents MacOS pycharm  FULL FILE

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open  Applications PyCharm  CE app  opens up the primary Pycharm Dialogue box to choose the project    worked for me with macOS 10 13 6  amp  Pycharm 2018 1

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Useful information for some   On Linux  installing PyCharm as a snap package automatically creates the command-line launcher named pycharm-professional  pycharm-community  or pycharm-educational  The Tools   Create Command-line Launcher command is therefore not available

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On Mac OSX  Update 2019 05 Now this can be done in the JetBrains Toolbox app  You can set it once with the Toolbox  for all of your JetBrain IDEs     As of 2019 1 EAP  the Create Commmand Line Launcher option is not available in the Tools menu anymore  My solution is to use the following alias in my bash zsh profile   Make sure that you run chmod -x       pycharm to make the binary executable     in your    profile or other rc file to the effect   alias pycharm  open -a    ls -r  Users geyang Library Application  Support JetBrains Toolbox apps PyCharm-P    PyCharm  app Contents MacOS pycharm

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After installing on kubuntu  I found that my pycharm script in   bin pycharm was just a desktop entry    Desktop Entry                                                                                                                                                                                                   Version 1 0 Type Application Name PyCharm Community Edition Icon  snap pycharm-community 79 bin pycharm png Exec env BAMF DESKTOP FILE HINT  var lib snapd desktop applications pycharm-community pycharm-community desktop  snap bin pycharm-community  f Comment Python IDE for Professional Developers Categories Development IDE  Terminal false StartupWMClass jetbrains-pycharm-ce   Obviously  I could not use this to open anything from the command line     pycharm setup py  home eldond bin pycharm old  line 1   Desktop  command not found  home eldond bin pycharm old  line 4  Community  command not found   But there s a hint in the desktop entry file  Looking in  snap pycharm-community   I found  snap pycharm-community current bin pycharm sh  I removed   bin pycharm  actually renamed it to have a backup  and then did  ln -s  snap pycharm-community current bin pycharm sh pycharm   where again  I found the start of the path by inspecting the desktop entry script I had to start with   Now I can open files with pycharm from the command line  I don t know what I messed up during install this time  the last two times I ve done fresh installs  it s had no trouble

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Update  My answer no longer works as of PyCharm 2018 X  On MacOS  I have this alias in my bashrc   alias pycharm  open -a  Applications PyCharm  app    I can use it like this  pycharm  lt project dir or file gt   The advantage of launching PyCharm this way is that you can open the current dir in PyCharm using pycharm    unlike  Applications PyCharm  app Contents MacOS pycharm   which opens the PyCharm application dir instead     Update  I switched to JetBrains Toolbox to install PyCharm  Finding PyCharm has gotten a bit more complex  but so far I was lucky with this monster   alias pycharm  open -a      ls -r   Applications apps PyCharm      PyCharm  app   head -n 1   sed  s

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Edit  April 2020   It seems that launcher script creation is now managed in Toolbox App settings  See the Toolbox App announcement for more details   --   Open Application Pycharm Find tools in menu bar Click Create Command-line Launcher Checking the launcher executable file which has been created in  usr local bin charm Open project or file just type   charm YOUR FOLDER OR FILE   Maybe this is what you need

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You re right that the JetBrains help page isn t very clear  On OS X  you ll want to use the launcher at    Applications PyCharm app Contents MacOS pycharm   Or  for community edition    Applications PyCharm  CE app Contents MacOS pycharm   Unfortunately  adding a symlink to this binary wouldn t work for me  the launcher would crash   Setting an alias worked  though  Add this in your  bash profile  or whatever shell you use    alias pycharm   Applications PyCharm CE app Contents MacOS pycharm    Then  you can run commands with simply pycharm    With this you can do things like open a project   pycharm   repos my-project   Or open a specific line of a file in a project   pycharm   repos my-project --line 42   repos my-project script py   Or view the diff of two files  they don t need to be part of a project    pycharm   some file txt   Downloads some other file txt   Note that I needed to pass absolute paths to those files or PyCharm couldn t find them

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I normally alias using built-in application launcher  open  from OS X   alias pc  open -a  Applications PyCharm  CE app    Then I can type   pc myfile1 txt myfiles  py   Though you can t  easily  pass args to PyCharm  if you want a quick way to open files  without needing to use full pathnames to the file   this does the trick

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Navigate to the directory on the terminal cd  your directory   Navigate to the directory on the terminal  use charm   to open the project in PyCharm  Simplest and quickest way to open a project in PyCharm

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