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Java Building Lifecycles and Plugins

Timothy Boland
Timothy Boland
18,237 Points

What do you set up so you can run Intellij from the command line with: idea .

I tried googling for how to set this up, but I havent been able to find anything

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Timothy,

It should have been installed automatically for you when IntelliJ was installed... mine was. (Running a Mac)

However, with IntelliJ open, under tools there is "Create Command-Line Launcher"

Give that a try and see if that works for you. :)

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