Launch Pycharm from command line (terminal)

Question

I want to try out PyCharm for sage mathematics development. Normally I run eclipse to do sage development, but now I want to try it with PyCharm.

To launch eclipse with sage environment variables, in command line I normally do the following:

sage -sh
cd /path/to/eclipse
./eclipse

The first line loads the sage environment variables, the remainder launches eclipse. How can I do the same thing for pyCharm? (note I am using a Mac and Ubuntu for sage development; the commands above are agnostic to both OSes)

1. Link 1 is close to the solution I am looking for, however I cannot find a pyCharm.sh anywhere.
2. Link 2: Jetbrains does not give clear instructions either.

Answer 1

Edit (April 2020): It seems that launcher script creation is now managed in Toolbox App settings. See the Toolbox App announcement for more details.

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1. Open Application Pycharm
2. Find tools in menu bar
3. Click Create Command-line Launcher
4. Checking the launcher executable file which has been created in /usr/local/bin/charm
5. Open project or file just type $ charm YOUR_FOLDER_OR_FILE

Maybe this is what you need.

Answer 2

Inside the IDE, you can click in:

Tools/Create Command-line Launcher...

Answer 3

You're right that the JetBrains help page isn't very clear. On OS X, you'll want to use the launcher at:

/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/MacOS/pycharm

Or, for community edition:

/Applications/PyCharm\ CE.app/Contents/MacOS/pycharm

Unfortunately, adding a symlink to this binary wouldn't work for me (the launcher would crash). Setting an alias worked, though. Add this in your .bash_profile (or whatever shell you use):

alias pycharm="/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/MacOS/pycharm"

Then, you can run commands with simply pycharm.

With this you can do things like open a project:

pycharm ~/repos/my-project

Or open a specific line of a file in a project:

pycharm ~/repos/my-project --line 42 ~/repos/my-project/script.py

Or view the diff of two files (they don't need to be part of a project):

pycharm ~/some_file.txt ~/Downloads/some_other_file.txt

Note that I needed to pass absolute paths to those files or PyCharm couldn't find them..