Terminal
Open: View | Tool Windows | Terminal or AltF12
Configure: Settings CtrlAlt0S | Tools | Terminal
IntelliJ IDEA includes an embedded terminal emulator for working with your command-line shell from inside the IDE. Use it to run Java tools, Git commands, set file permissions, and perform other command-line tasks without switching to a dedicated terminal application.
This functionality relies on the Terminal plugin, which is bundled and enabled in IntelliJ IDEA by default. If the relevant features aren't available, make sure that you didn't disable the plugin.
Press CtrlAlt0S to open the IDE settings and then select Plugins.
Open the Installed tab, find the Terminal plugin, and select the checkbox next to the plugin name.
Initially, the terminal emulator runs with your default system shell, but it supports many other shells, such as Windows PowerShell, Command Prompt cmd.exe, sh
, bash
, zsh
, csh
, and so on. For more information about changing the shell, refer to Terminal settings.
Go to View | Tool Windows | Terminal or press AltF12.
By default, the terminal emulator runs with the current directory set to the root directory of the current project. For more information about changing the default start directory, refer to Terminal settings.
Right-click any file (for example, in the Project tool window or any open editor tab) and select Open in Terminal to open the Terminal tool window with a new session in the directory of that file.
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You can open the terminal as an editor tab: right-click the Terminal tool window header and select Move to Editor.
To start a new session in a separate tab, click on the toolbar or press CtrlShift0T.
To run multiple sessions inside a tab, right-click the tab and select Split Right or Split Down in the context menu.
The Terminal saves tabs and sessions when you close the project or IntelliJ IDEA. It preserves tab names, the current working directory, and even the shell history.
To close a tab, click on the Terminal toolbar or press CtrlF4.
Press Alt0→ and Alt0← to switch between active tabs. Alternatively, you can press Alt0↓ to see the list of all terminal tabs.
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Configure shortcuts for the terminal actions in the IDE settings (CtrlAlt0S), under Keymap | Plugins | Terminal.
On the toolbar, click .
Click New SSH Session, enter the address of a host to which you want to connect, and provide authentication data.
Or, if you have configured SSH configurations, you can select one of them from the list.
To terminate the connection, click in the terminal tab.
Right-click the tab and select Rename Session from the context menu.
tip
Just like with system terminal tabs, you can rename IntelliJ IDEA Terminal tabs programmatically. For example, use
title MyTitle
if your interpreter is Windows Command Prompt orecho -en "\033]0;MyTitle\a"
for bash and zsh. This feature is available if the Show application title checkbox is selected in Advanced Settings.
To search for a certain string in a Terminal session, press Ctrl0F. This searches all text in the session: the prompt, commands, and output.
By default, the search is not case-sensitive. You can click Match case in the search field to make it case-sensitive.
Press CtrlAlt0S to open the IDE settings and then select Tools | Terminal. For more information, refer to Terminal settings.
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For advanced settings, select Advanced Settings and scroll down to the Terminal group. For more information, refer to Advanced Settings: Terminal.
Instead of running a specific command in the integrated terminal and reading console output, you can use the relevant IDE feature, like a tool window or a dialog that implements this functionality. For example, you can launch a gradle or mvn command from the Terminal tool window and view its output in the Run or Debug tool window.
Type a command in the terminal and notice how it is highlighted.
Instead of pressing Enter, which runs the command in the terminal, press CtrlEnter to open the corresponding GUI element.
To run the command in the Debug tool window, press CtrlShiftEnter.
This feature also works with most of the commands recognized by Run Anything (press Ctrl twice), for example npm
or rails
depending on what plugins you have installed. To run a highlighted command in debug mode (use the Debug tool window instead of Run) press CtrlShiftEnter.
Click on the title bar of the Terminal tool window and clear the Run Commands using IDE option.
Alternatively, open the Settings dialog (CtrlAlt0S) , go to Tools | Terminal, and clear the Run Commands using IDE checkbox.
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