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Pycharm - command line to build cache/index for a project

In brief Opening a PyCharm project takes long time due to index/cache build process - to speed it up, I'm looking for how to call PyCharm to build that via a command line.

This question is also posted as PyCharm ticket here

In details PyCharm index build takes long time to finish which is quite annoying when start working with project.

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I want that run to be executed via command line so that I can run them at night e.g. 03:00 AM. That will help us to open the project quickly since the cache/index has been prepared by our scheduled command-line above.

So the question is, what is the command to do so? My google search on this topic and on our site is empty so I asked here.

p.s.

We can open a PyCharm project via command line as discussed here; though I cannot find an option for building index/cache.

$ charm --help
Usage:
  /usr/local/bin/charm -h | -? | --help
  /usr/local/bin/charm [project_dir]
  /usr/local/bin/charm [-l|--line line] [project_dir|--temp-project] file[:line]
  /usr/local/bin/charm diff <left> <right>
  /usr/local/bin/charm merge <local> <remote> [base] <merged>
Solution

  • This is the workaround for now on my Ubuntu Desktop 16.04

    Please make sure charm command is installed on your system to call reload_pycharm_projects bash command as defined below.

    function reload_pycharm_projects() {
  cd $path_to_code_home
    echo 'Running PyCharm...'
    charm &
    sleep 16 # wait 16s for PyCharm window to be opened; put in the time suitable on your machine

    # open pycharm projects - list all projects of your interest below
    echo 'Loading projects...'
    charm p1
    charm p2  
    charm p3  
    sleep 90 # wait 90s for all project load & index/cache refreshed; put in more time as you want
  cd --

  echo 'Closing Pycharm...'
  kill -9 $(ps x | grep -E .+java.+PyCharm | awk '{print $1}') # kill pycharm window
  exit
}