PhpStorm starter

phpstorm

#!/bin/bash

P=`find ~/Software/ -name PhpStorm* | sort -r | head -1`

if [ -z "$P" ]; then 
  echo "PhpStorm installation not found!"
  exit 1
fi

$P/bin/phpstorm.sh

PhpStorm starter

If you update your PhpStorm quite often, you probably recreate your PhpStorm starter every time, maybe via soft symlink or update your bash script.
Well, that's what I have done until I decided to write a script that looks itself for latest installation of PhpStorm and starts it from there.

script installation

If that's what you want, you can simply install this script on your machine:

• copy this file into your /usr/bin or ~/bin directory
• update the path that points to your PhpStorm software (by default ~/Software)
• make sure your PhpStorm installations are stored in that path and start with PhpStorm* (or change it to whatever you want)
• make this script executable (sudo chmod +x phpstorm)

That's it! Now you can start the latest version of PhpStorm without modifying the script.