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Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston

Reputation: 2382

Mac Terminal link not working

I am trying to make a command line link for Sublime Text 3.

If I run /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl Sublime Text opens like normal.

I then run sudo ln "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/bin/subl

Restart the terminal and I get this:

$ ls /usr/bin/subl
/usr/bin/subl
$ subl
-bash: subl: command not found

I also tried setting in my .profile alias subl="/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"

but I also get command not found

EDIT:

/usr/bin/ is in my PATH as well

EDIT2:

I tried a restart of my computer but still doesn't work.

It seems any new alias I make won't work in my .profile.

I tried ln -s "/usr/bin/mail" /usr/bin/testln and it did work.

EDIT3: I got it to work by putting an alias in .bash_profile instead. I would still like to know why my ln doesn't work though.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2493

Answers (2)

MattDMo
MattDMo

Reputation: 102862

Your symlink command

sudo ln "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/bin/subl

didn't work because you both enclosed the path in quotes and escaped the space with a backslash. The quotes make the symlink point to the literal path 

/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

which is not valid. You should use either 

"/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"

or

/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

but don't combine the two.

Upvotes: 3

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 2013

You can add the alias in your .profile file as :

alias subl="open -a Sublime\ Text"

After you do that

subl .

Should work just fine

Upvotes: 1

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