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In addition to running code inspections from the main menu, or from the context menus of the Project tool window, you can also launch the inspector from the command line, without actually running IntelliJ IDEA. This way you can perform regular code inspections as a part of your development process, which is especially important for the large projects. Inspection results are stored in XML format.

To launch code inspection from the command line
  1. Under the bin directory of your IntelliJ IDEA installation, use one of the following launchers, depending on the operating system:
    • For Windows:inspect.bat
    • For UNIX and Mac:inspect.sh
  2. Specify command line arguments:
    • Project file path is the path to the *.ipr file or .idea directory of the project to be inspected.
    • Inspection profile path is the path to the profile, against which the project should be inspected. The inspection profiles are stored under USER_HOME\.IntelliJ IDEAXX\config\inspection
    • Output path is the path to the xml file, where the results report will be stored.
    • Options: you can specify the directory to be inspected -d <directory> and the verbosity level of output -vX, where X is 0 for quiet, 1 for noisy and 2 for extra noisy.

Examples

Windows

inspect.bat C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter Default.xml results-dir -v2

MacOS

/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/bin/inspect.sh ~/IdeaProjects/MyTestProject ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJ IDEA/inspection/Default.xml results-dir -v2

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