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macossublimetext2
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Reputation: 44332

Why isn't Sublime Text link created?

I'm trying to get Sublime Text 2 to open from Terminal. I'm using the following:

MacBook-Pro:project2 myusername$ ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
ln: /Users/myusername/bin/subl: No such file or directory

I'm not sure what is wrong. I'm following all the examples out there. Am I missing something?

Here's the output of an echo $PATH (updated path):

/Users/myusername/bin:/Users/myusername/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/go/bin

This is on OSX 10.11.1

Upvotes: 1

Views: 64

Answers (2)

mainframer
mainframer

Reputation: 22089

Use one of these 2 commands:

sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl ~/bin/subl

or 

sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl

Upvotes: 0

Jozef Legény
Jozef Legény

Reputation: 1167

You most probably do not have a bin folder in your home directory. Create one by using

mkdir ~/bin

This will create the bin folder in your /Users/yourusername/ directory. In terminal the ~ is short for your home.

You will also have to append this folder to your path, i.e. create (or edit if it exists) a .profile file in your home directory and give it this content:

export PATH=/Users/yourusername/bin:$PATH

You will have to open a new terminal for this change to take place.

Upvotes: 1

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