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Besides working from within IntelliJ IDEA, it is possible to perform certain actions "offline", without actually launching the IDE. This way you can:

To launch code inspection from the command line
  1. 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

    To view differences using command line diff tool
    • In the command line, type the following:
                          <IntelliJ IDEA> diff <path1> <path2>
                      
      where:
      • <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
    To open file for editing
    • In the command line, type the following:
                          <IntelliJ IDEA> <path1> --line<number> <path1>
                      
      where:
      • <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
            

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