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How to open projects in the Intellij IDEA from terminal
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Create file /usr/local/bin/idea with the content:

#!/bin/sh

open -na "IntelliJ IDEA.app" --args "$@"

To use, just type idea <PATH_DIRECTORY> or idea . if you are already in the folder project.

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