Open Sublime Text from Terminal in macOS

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In Terminal when I use  subl  It returns -bash   subl  command not found  Anyone know how to open Sublime Text 3 from the command line in macOS

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I m on a mac and this worked for me   open  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl

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You can just add an alias  alias subl   Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl    Then you should be able to open a folder or whatever with  subl  lt path gt

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There is a easy way to do this  It only takes a couple steps and you don t need to use the command line too much  If you new to the command line this is the way to do it    Step 1   Finding the bin file to put the subl executable file in   Open up the terminal type in cd    ---------------------this should go back a directory type in ls ------------------------to see a list of files in the directory type in cd    ---------------------until you get a folder that contains usr type in open usr ---------------this should open the finder and you should see some folders open up the bin folder -------this is where you will copy your sublime executable file    Step 2  Finding the executable file   open up the finder Under file open up a new finder window  CMD   N  Navigate to applications folder find Sublime Text and right click so you get a pulldown menu Click on Show Package Content Open up Content SharedSupport bin Copy the subl file Paste it in the bin folder in the usr folder we found earlier In the terminal type in subl --------------this should open Sublime Text   Make sure that it gets copied and it s not a shortcut  If you do have a problem  view the usr bin folder as icons and paste the subl in a empty area in the folder  It should not have a shortcut arrow in the icon image

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You shouldn t pollute  usr bin directory unless you really need to  I always use  usr local bin for those binaries that aren t managed by the distribution package manager  Why  Because if the package manager gets updated it ll always replace the files in  usr bin   So what I d do is   sudo ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr local bin subl

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Assuming    You have already installed Homebrew   usr local bin is in your  PATH   You are on Yosemite or El Capitain    MacOS Sierra 10 12 5 works as well confirmed by David Rawson and MacOS Sierra 10 12 6 confirmed by Alexander K    Run the following script in Terminal to create the specific symlink   ln -s   Applications Sublime Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl   usr local bin subl   Then   subl     Hit Return and it should instantly open Sublime Text

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The Symlink command from the Sublime Text 3 documentation won t work as there is no   bin  directory in Home location on Mac OS X El Capitan or later   So  we ll need to place the symlink on the  usr local bin as this path would be in our  PATH variable in most cases   So  the following command should do the trick   ln -s   Applications Sublime Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl   usr local bin subl   Once you create the symlink correctly  you would be able to run the Sublime Text 3 like this  subl      means the current directory

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Try this   ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr local bin subl

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I finally got this to work on my OSX box  I used these steps to get it to work    Test subl from your ST installation   First  navigate to a small folder in Terminal that you want ST to open and enter the following command    Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl     NOTE  You may need to replace Sublime  Text app in the command above to Sublime  Text  3 app or Sublime  Text  2 app depending upon where the application is stored in your Applications directory  The   at the end of the above command opens the current working directory you are located in  again make sure you re in a directory that only contains a few files     If you DO NOT get Sublime Text opening your current working directory then the next set of steps will NOT work  If nothing happens or you get an error from Terminal it will be because it couldn t find the Sublime Text application  This would mean that you would have to check what you ve typed  spelling  etc   OR that Sublime Text isn t installed  Check   bash profile    Now it s time to create your symbolic link in your PATH folder  BUT  before we do  let s check your profile file by using nano    bash profile  These are the following lines that pertain to having subl work on the command line for Sublime Text   export PATH  bin  sbin  usr bin  usr local sbin  usr local bin  PATH export EDITOR  subl -w    The first line sets the location where you want Terminal to look for binaries on your machine  I m going to store my symbolic link in the  usr local bin directory - I guess you could store it anywhere provided you ve notified Terminal where to look for binaries   The second line is OPTIONAL and just sets Sublime Text as the default editor  The flag -w has been added and you can find out more about flags by going to the Sublime Text docs  ST3 subl or ST2 subl  If you do make any edits to this file once you have closed it  you need to run the command   source    bash profile    to compile your newly applied edits  If you see any errors after sourcing your file get them fixed before moving to the final step  Create a symbolic link to Sublime Text   Now in your chosen path  I used  usr local bin  you now enter the following command   ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr local bin subl   The  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl being EXACTLY the same location as what you entered and verified as working in STEP 1 above  The  usr local bin subl being the location of where you want the symbolic link to be located - needs to be one of your PATH locations from STEP 2 above   Now when you navigate to a folder or file that you want to open in Sublime Text you now just enter subl followed by the name of the file or   to open the current working directory

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I m using oh-my-zsh on Mac OSX Mavericks and the symbol link didn t work for me  so I added an alias in my  zshrc file instead   alias subl   Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl    Open a new terminal and you should be good to go  and type subl

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Close Sublime  Run this command  It will uninstall it  You won t lose your prefs  Then run it again  It will automatically bind subl   brew install Caskroom cask sublime-text

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It works      for me on MacOS Sierra 10 12 2  ln -s   Applications Sublime Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl   usr local bin subl   and find it in terminal subl

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This is to get it working as an ALIAS  not a Symbolic link     This will allow you to run additional commands in the terminal without interrupting the subl session    Using many of the symbolic link answers here  ln -s   cause the terminal process to endure while using Sublime text   If you want the separation  create an alias in the Bash profile like so    Test subl from your ST installation   First  navigate to a folder in Terminal that you want ST to open and enter the following command    Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl     NOTE  You may need to replace Sublime  Text app in the command above to Sublime  Text  3 app or Sublime  Text  2 app depending upon where the application is stored in your Applications directory  The   at the end of the above command opens the current working directory you are located in  again make sure you re in a directory that only contains a few files     If you DO NOT get Sublime Text opening your current working directory then the next set of steps will NOT work  If nothing happens or you get an error from Terminal it will be because it couldn t find the Sublime Text application  This would mean that you would have to check what you ve typed  spelling  etc   OR that Sublime Text isn t installed  Check and update   bash profile    Now add the alias in your Bash Profile  Open it via vim    bash profile  These are the following lines that pertain to having subl work on the command line for Sublime Text      For Sublime Text 3 alias alias subl   Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl     For Sublime Text global editor preference   Optional export EDITOR  subl -w    I suggest always commenting your code in here with      The second line is OPTIONAL and just sets Sublime Text as the default editor  The flag -w has been added and you can find out more about flags by going to the Sublime Text docs  ST3 subl or ST2 subl  If you do make any edits to this file once you have closed it  you need to source this file in your current session or close the terminal  tab  and open a new one  You can source this file by running the command source    bash profile Resolve any errors before moving to the final step

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I would add that if you are upgrading from Sublime Text 2  go into  usr bin and delete your old subl first before following the same instructions above  It s worth the upgrade

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The one I will use is very simple   open -a  sublime text   file    this opens up the sublime text right away  You can  specify the file to open as an optional parameter  e g  to open  myfile txt  in the current directory

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Please note not to write into  usr bin but instead into  usr local bin  The first one is for app that write themselves the binary into the system and the latest is for that specific usage of making our own system-wide binaries  which is our case here when symlinking    Also  usr local bin is read after  usr bin and therefore also a good place to override any default app   Considering this  the right symlinking would be    ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr local bin subl

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This worked for me  I m using OS X Mavericks   First  create a symbolic link   sudo ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr bin subl   Now you can open sublime with  subl   a path to the directory you want to open

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Adding this to ur  bashrc or  zshrc is a simple solution   alias sublime  open -a  Applications Sublime  Text app

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In OS X Mavericks running Sublime Text 2 the following worked for me    sudo ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text  2 app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr bin subl   Its handy to locate the file in the finder and drag and drop that into the terminal window so you can be sure the path is the correct one  I m not a huge terminal user so this was more comfortable for me  then you can go to the start of the path and start adding in the other parts like the shorthand UNIX commands  Hope this helps

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For anyone looking for opening a file with Sublime on mac from terminal  open  path file txt  -a   Applications Sublime Text app

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You can create a new alias in Terminal   nano    bash profile   Copy this line and paste it into the editor   alias subl  open -a  Sublime Text     Hit control   x  then y  then enter to save and close it   Close all Terminal windows and open it up again   That s it  you can now use subl filename or subl

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if you have subl set up to be called from the command line  the proper command to open the current directory is   subl     OS X Command Line  is a link on how to make sure everything is set up

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The following worked for me open -a Sublime  Text file name txt open -a Sublime  Text Folder Path  You can use alias to make it event simple like Add the following line in your     bash profile  alias sublime  quot open -a Sublime  Text    quot   Then next time you can use following command to open files folders sublime file name txt sublime Folder Path

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Creating the file in the Default path did not work for me as the Menu sublime-menu file has overridden almost all other menu options and left me with only the custom one  What worked for me is creating the below file in path   Library Application Support Sublime Text 3 Packages User Main sublime-menu  note directory User instead of Default                    quot caption quot    quot File quot            quot mnemonic quot    quot F quot            quot id quot    quot file quot            quot children quot                                            quot caption quot    quot Open Recent More quot                    quot children quot                                            quot command quot    quot open recent file quot    quot args quot     quot index quot   1                             quot command quot    quot open recent file quot    quot args quot     quot index quot   2                             quot command quot    quot open recent file quot    quot args quot     quot 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For MAC 10 8    sudo ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr local bin subl   worked

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I am using mac airbook open your terminal and type    sudo ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr bin subl   Then type simple subl and file name    subl index py

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I am using Oh-My-Zshell and the previous aliases stated didn t work for me so I wrote a simple bash function that will allow you to open Sublime from the command line by using sublime to open the current folder in the editor  With the addition functionality to specify a file to open the editor from      Open Sublime from current folder or specified folder sublime       Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl    1     Usage to open current folder in terminal     sublime   Usage to open specific folder     sublime path to the file to open

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Summarizing the different ways you can accomplish it    To open sublime text from terminal   open  Applications Sublime  Text app     To open a specific file in current path  or provide path to the file you need to open  using sublime text   open -a  Applications Sublime  Text app  myFileToOpen txt    Make your command short by introducing a new alias named  sublime  and use it  a  open bash profile   nano    bash profile   b  copy this line to create the alias and save and restart terminal  alias sublime  open -a  Applications Sublime  Text app    c  usage  apple txt will open with sublime text  provide file path if necessary    sublime apple txt

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I achieve this with just one line in terminal  with Sublime 3    alias subl   usr local bin sublime

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