How to open Atom editor from command line in OS X

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I have the Atom editor and was wondering how you can open a file or folder from the terminal in Atom  I am using a Mac  I am looking for a way to do this   atom    opens folder   atom file js  opens file   atom  opens editor    Is this possible and how do I set it up

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I had the same issue which I resolved by first moving Atom app from downloads to Applications  Then under Atom s menu options  I selected  quot Install Shell Commands quot

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On macOS you can add it to your    bash profile  as  alias atom  open -a  Atom    and from terminal just call  atom filename whatever

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add path   usr local bin   in profile   mac   home  bash profile  export PATH  GOPATH bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local bin  usr local git bin  PATH

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For Windows 7 x64 with default Atom installation add this to your PATH   USERPROFILE  AppData Local atom app-1 4 0 resources cli   and restart any running consoles   if you don t find Atom there - right-click Atom icon and navigate to Target

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For Windows10 and new release of atom i solved the problem by adding in my ENV VARIABLE on the  PATH  row   USERPROFILE  AppData Local atom bin

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Roll your own with  Clockworks solution  or in Atom  choose the menu option Atom   Install Shell Commands  This creates two symlinks in  usr local bin  apm - gt   Applications Atom app Contents Resources app apm node modules  bin apm atom - gt   Applications Atom app Contents Resources app atom sh   The atom command lets you do exactly what you re asking  apmis the command line package manager

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I am on mingw bash  so I have created   profile file with following  alias atom    AppData Local atom bin atom

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With conemu on windows 10 I couldn t call atom from console even after I added  USERPROFILE  AppData Local atom bin to PATH in environment variables  I just added  alias atom  C  Users me AppData local atom app-1 12 7 atom    to my  bashrc file

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The symlink solution for this stopped working for me in zsh today  I ended up creating an alias in my  zshrc file instead   alias atom  sh  Applications Atom app Contents Resources app atom sh

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Open the application by name   open -a  Atom  FILENAME

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Another simple solution is to add  usr local bin to your PATH  I had the same issue  I installed shell commands  see shaheenery s response  the symlinks already existed and pointing to the correct destination  see thomax s response   however I would still get  not found   I m using Korn Shell btw   Here s what I did    Open your    profile using your choice of editor  in my case   emacs    kshrc  Add this line  export PATH   usr local bin   PATH   Save and exit Restart terminal or source    profile Test   atom -h

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With the Atom editor open  in the menu bar   Click Atom    Install Shell Commands    You should expect to see     Potentially restart your terminal   I did just out of habit  not sure if you need to

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I had problems due to atom being unable to write its logfile when starting from the commandline  This cured it   sudo chmod 777    atom nohup out

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Make sure to put  move  the atom into Application directory

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In addition to  sbedulin  Greeting  lovely Windows users    The general path on Windows should be   USERPROFILE  AppData Local atom bin   If you are using a bash emulator like babun  You d better checkout the shell files  which only available in the real app folders   c User  lt username gt  AppData Local atom app- lt version gt  resources cli apm sh   or atom sh

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When Atom installs it automatically creates a symlink in your  usr local bin  However in case it hasn t  you can create it yourself on your Mac ln -s  Applications Atom app Contents Resources app atom sh  usr local bin atom  Now you can use atom folder name to open a folder and atom file name to open a file

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Iv e noticed this recently with all new macs here at my office   Atom will be installed via an image for the developers but we found the Atom is never in the Application folder     When doing a ls on the  usr local bin folder the path for atom will show something like   private var folders cs     To resolve this  we just located atom app and copied it into the application folder  then ran the system link commands provided by nwinkler which resoled the issue   Developers can now open atom from the command line with  atom  or open the current projects from their working director with  atom

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Upgrading Atom appears to break command line functionality on the occasion  Looks like in my case it created two versions of the application instead of overwriting them  Occurs because the new file structure doesn t match file paths created by  Atom -  Install Shell Commands   In order fix the issue you ll need to do the following    Move  Atom X  from Documents into Applications  why it ended up in here  I have no idea  Rename  Atom X  to  Atom  Might need to restart your terminal and Atom   After that everything should work just like it did before  Hopefully this saves someone 30 minutes of poking around

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