Shortcut to open IntelliJ in WSL2

Shortcut IntelliJ in WSL2.md

Alias to Open IntelliJ in WSL2

Firstly you need make sure that the your IntelliJ folder is in the correct path, if you doesn't already have IntelliJ, you can do the download in official site: https://www.jetbrains.com/pt-br/idea/download/?section=linux

Or you can try use the following command:

# Sometimes you can have some problems with your network connection or proxies, so try change de begin for curl -k ...
curl https://download-cdn.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIC-2023.2.4.tar.gz --output ./intelliJ.tar.gz

Extract and move the folder to opt WSL folder with the following commands:

Important

Pay attention to the names of the folders, this may change depending on the version you download

tar -xvzf intelliJ.tar.gz
sudo mv idea-IC-232.10203.10

After this just put the following command in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

alias idea='/opt/idea-IC-232.10203.10/bin/./idea.sh "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1 &'

Tip

Usually after change something inside ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc, we need close the tab or all terminal to commit this changes, but you can try use the following command before do this alternatives: source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.zshrc

Now you can run the following command inside project folder:

cd some-project-folder/
idea .