Open Clion from terminal

Question

I've been trying to set a path to Clion directory in my computer in order to open this program with a command in terminal, but it didn't worked.

If you read this and asked yourself: "what?". I want to start a C++ project like I did with a normal text editor(I used to write codes with gedit).

I want something like, make a hello world:

Clion helloWorld.cpp &

And it will open a new project, named helloWorld, and then I can write down the code.

If it is impossible to do that, sorry.

Answer 1

Start CLion using the GUI interface, then start Terminal and run the following to find what process is running:

ps -ae| grep lion

Output

57257 ??         0:20.45 /Applications/CLion.app/Contents/MacOS/clion
57434 ttys000    0:00.00 grep lion

So the command I need to use, in my case, to start CLion from the command line is:

/Applications/CLion.app/Contents/MacOS/clion

Then you need to pass the directory containing your project, so you could make a function like this:

function CLion {  /Applications/CLion.app/Contents/MacOS/clion "$1"; }

Then you can just type:

Clion ~/CLionProjects/someProject

Answer 2

If you use JetBrains Toolbox to manage your CLion (or other IntelliJ) apps like I do, you'll find that Toolbox installs CLion with a versioned pathname. This means every time you update CLion, the path to the clion.sh launcher script changes.

For Linux environments, you can use the following in your ~/.bash_profile to handle this:

alias clion="`find ~/.local -iname clion.sh | head -1` >/dev/null &" #Linux

or

alias clion='open -n "$(IFS=$'\n' && find "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/CLion" -iname clion.app | head -1)"' #Mac OS X

If you upgrade your CLion you can restart your terminal or just run . ~/.bashrc to update the clion alias.

Answer 3

In researching this question, I just discovered that there is an officially supported method for doing this is via CLion's Tools|Create Command Line Launcher... menu item.

Full details are posted here: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/working-with-the-ide-features-from-command-line.html

Answer 4

For Mac users, you need to add following row in ~/.bash_profile:

alias clion='open -na "CLion.app" --args "$@"'

Then from the terminal you can run CLion:

clion /path-to-your-project