- Under the bin directory of your IntelliJ IDEA installation, use one of the following launchers,
depending on the operating system:
- Specify command line arguments:
- Inspection profile path
is the path to the profile, against which the project
should be inspected. The inspection profiles are stored under USER_HOME\.IntelliJ IDEAXX\config\inspection
Examples
Windows
MacOS
- In the command line, type the following:
<IntelliJ IDEA> diff <path1> <path2>
- <IntelliJ IDEA> is platform-specific product launcher
- <path1>, <path2> are full paths to the files to be compared.
Examples
Windows
IntelliJ IDEA.exe diff C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\javascript\numbers.js C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\coffeescript\numbers.coffee
MacOS
/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/MacOS/idea diff ~/Documents/file1.txt ~/Documents/file2.txt- In the command line, type the following:
<IntelliJ IDEA> <path1> --line<number> <path1>
- <IntelliJ IDEA> is platform-specific product launcher
- <path1> is the path to the project that contains the desired file
- <number> is the number of the line, where the caret should rest
- <path2> is the path to the file to be opened
Examples
Windows
IntelliJ IDEA.exe C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter --line 3 C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\javascript\numbers.js
MacOS
/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/ ~/IdeaProjects/MyTestProject --line 3 ~/IdeaProjects/MyTestProject/file1.txt
