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 <left> <right>\n' +
' {0} merge <local> <remote> [base] <merged>').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('>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 >= 3: cmd = cmd.encode('utf-8')
encoded = struct.pack('>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) > 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)