First of all I do not have a directory /usr/local/bin, everything is loaded in /usr/bin.
The command
sudo ln -s /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/atom.sh /usr/bin/atom
or the similar one for subl fails with the error:
sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin
Operation not permitted.
Any hints will be much appreciated.
I created the directory /usr/local/bin, I changed the owner to root and I changed the accessing rights to 755.
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 $PATH (updated path):
/Users/myusername/bin:/Users/myusername/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/go/bin
This is on OSX 10.11.1
You most probably do not have a bin folder in your home directory. Create one by using
mkdir ~/bin
This will create the bin folder in your /Users/yourusername/ directory. In terminal the ~ is short for your home.
You will also have to append this folder to your path, i.e. create (or edit if it exists) a .profile file in your home directory and give it this content:
export PATH=/Users/yourusername/bin:$PATH
You will have to open a new terminal for this change to take place.
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
I have tried to launch Sublime Text 2 from Terminal, and I have followed the instruction on Github from this link https://gist.github.com/artero/1236170#installation ,but Im steel have problem. Im trying to make ~bin/ directory in Terminal $ mkdir -p /usr/local/bin ,but I`m getting this error : mkdir: /usr/local/bin: Permission denied. How can I fix this.
You need to use the sudo command, which essentially means you are running the command as user root. Be very careful when using sudo, as you can really mess up your system if you type something incorrectly.
To use it, make sure you have Administrator privileges. Then, run
sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin
to make /usr/local/bin, if it doesn't exist already. Then, run
sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/sublime
to create a sublime symlink in /usr/local/bin. Finally, edit your ~/.profile file to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH, save it, restart Terminal, and you should be all set.
try
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
I am trying to get the Subl command working on my Mac OSX Mavericks. I have ST3 in my root applications folder.
When I run the line below, I also run it with sudo and get the same message.
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
In the terminal I get the following error
ln: /Users/username/bin/subl: No such file or directory
I double checked to see if it was working or not with
subl --help
but get the following error
-bash: subl: command not found
I am trying to get this to work so I can use it with Git and open file with sublime from there https://help.github.com/articles/associating-text-editors-with-git#using-sublime-text-as-your-editor
My .bash_profile looks like the following
export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
export EDITOR='subl -w'
if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
source ~/.git-completion.bash
fi
Can anyone advise how to fix this problem,
Thanks
Most likely the issue is that you don't have a /Users/username/bin directory in the first place, so your ln command trying to create a symlink isn't working. Secondary to that, even if ~/bin did exist, it's not part of your PATH, so the subl command won't ever be found.
To make things much easier for you, just create the symlink in /usr/local/bin. It (hopefully) already exists, and is already in your PATH. Just run
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
and you should be all set.
In response to your comment: There are 2 commands here - ln, which creates a symlink, and export, which just creates an environment variable (PATH is a special environment variable that contains the list of directories searched for commands when you enter something in Terminal).
When you create a symlink, the entire directory tree needs to exist before the link will be created. So, while /Users and /Users/username already existed, /Users/username/bin did not, so the ln command failed, regardless of whether sudo was used. In order to create the bin directory in your home directory (also known as ~), you would first have needed to run mkdir ~/bin, then create the symlink with your first ln command (the one without the sudo). Next, you would have needed to add ~/bin to your PATH environment variable by replacing the first two lines in ~/.bash_profile with
export PATH=~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
However, since /usr/local/bin was already in your PATH, the easiest solution was to create the symlink to subl there, instead of creating a new ~/bin directory, making the symlink, editing ~/.bash_profile, then restarting your shell.
I also have this requirement. I use alias instead of those symbolic link method. It is rather easy and here is how.
Step1: Open ~/.bash_profile, add below line into it then save and close it.
alias subl='/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl'
Step2: execute source to make the alias setting take effect.
source ~/.bash_profile
Now you can use command subl following by a file or directory path to open them, enjoy!
I've been having trouble modifying my path to add Sublime Text 2. I've added a ~/bin directory and run this command:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
The subl link appears in ~/bin. But I need to add the ~/bin directory to my path. I'm fairly new at this, and I don't know where my path is. I've looked around, and found that the likely files are either .profile, .bash_profile or .bashrc
I don't have a .bash_profile. To .profile and .bashrc I added
PATH=$PATH:~/bin/subl
export PATH
Is that the right thing to add? And if so, where should I add it?
When I echo $PATH, I get:
/Users/<username>/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194#rails3tutorial2ndEd/bin:/Users/<username>/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194#global/bin:/Users/<username>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/Users/<username>/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
When I type subl, I get:
-bash: subl: command not found
Thanks!
p.s. I had previously installed Macports, which modified my .profile file. Not sure if this has anything to do with it - I now don't know what the default .profile looks like.
I was just as new to this as you, which means I wasn't even sure how to read half the stuff related to modifying PATH. Eventually though I came upon a way to do it that doesn't require you to put subl into the .rvm/bin (since that is for something else) but in its appropriate directory, which is ~/bin.
Go to your terminal and type:
open -a Finder /usr/bin
This will open your Finder to the /usr/bin directory. Once you're there open a new Finder, go to Applications, right click on the Sublime Text icon and go to Show Package Contents, then to Contents, SharedSupport, bin. Copy the subl file and paste it into the other Finder showing /usr/bin
That's it! You should be set to use the command:
subl . (or subl file.name)
Instread of all commented here. You need add symlink to sublime in /usr/local/bin. Its not require a root access. And don't need to create another bin directory.
For Sublime Text 2
ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/
For Sublime Text 3
ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/
Update for zsh
For some reason, "~/bin" in my path wasn't working when I recently switched from bash to zsh/prezto. I changed it to "/Users/myusername/bin" and it works fine once again. I'll be looking for a reason why and update when I find it. Please comment if you have a better solution.
I know this is an old post, but thought I'd document a solution for anyone else trying to follow the instructions given by sublimetext for working with sublime from the OSX command line verbatim. Update for Sublime text 3 Sublime Text 3 Documentation
1) Create a directory called "bin" in your home directory "~/"
mkdir ~/bin
2) Create a symbolic link to your sublime text 2 app in the new directory you just created
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
Update for Sublime Text 3 app path is slightly different:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
3) Follow Ryan Hoffman's instructions on how to easily add to the path in OSX: add to the path on Mac OSX Add the newly created "~/bin" to the path using his technique. Your /etc/paths file will look something like this when you're done (notice ~/bin at the end):
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
~/bin
4) Open a new terminal window to start using subl from the command line.
You don't need to do PATH=$PATH:~/bin/subl. Instead, PATH=$PATH:~/bin is sufficient. That way, you are telling the shell to look into ~/bin for binaries. With your command, you told the shell to look into the "folder" ~/bin/subl for binaries, which doesn't work. Furthermore, you don't need to add the commands in two files. Add them once in your .bashrc. I am not a bash expert, but I can recommend reading this blog post for further explanations of the different startup files.
I'd like to pose an alternate solution to this problem. Use a directory already in your path. Like this:
$ sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
tl;dr
I ran into the same problem in Yosemite (OS X 10.10) where, in a fresh install of the OS, the ~/bin directory doesn't exist and isn't in your path. Yet there are lots of useful places already in your path you could place the symlink to Sublime.
For example here are the items currently in my path (use $ echo $PATH to get a list):
/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin:/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/mysql/bin
You can easily modify the script to use a location already in your path by changing the part that says ~/bin/subl to /usr/local/bin/subl
Thus, running the following command will accomplish your goal.
$ sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
You need to first create a symbolic link to /usr/bin. A symbolic link - or SymLink - is an alias or shortcut to a directory. Do as follow:
First, make sure you are in your Home directory using the Terminal command line
cd ~
Create a symbolic link to your usr/bin directory.
ln -s /usr/bin bin
Where ln = create a link, -s = symbolic, followed by the [target diectory] and [name of link]
Test your new link
cd bin
This should take you to your ~/bin - same as /usr/bin. The ~ indicates there's a long path hidden inside.
Now, go back to your Home folder to install the subl command
cd ~
Install the Sublime Text 2 command line tool. I'll be using sudo to bypass any permission blocks.
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
You should be good to go! Test it by simply entering subl as your command line and it should launch Sublime Text 2 from Terminal.
I had been struggling with this problem recently. I realized that the ~ isn't expanded to your home directory in the path. At least it wasn't for me.
This is what I did to make it work.
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
My subl was linked from the application directory into my ~/bin per some followup instructions I found for brew cask. Unfortunately the path was never updated.
had the same challenge and ended up just creating a .bash_profile file, and adding the path statement directly there. Worked without incident. You may want to also check out Alvin Alexander's sample .bash_profile post (http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/mac-os-x/sample-mac-osx-bashrc-terminal-startup-file) - I found a couple of other helpful commands that I'll be adding as well.
Simple do it this on the terminal:
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/bin/subl
That is where my Sublime is stored, try to type the path to Sublime because your version may differ.
subl .
Should be working fine.
echo $PATH
and use one of the path already in there. In this example "/usr/local/bin"
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
if the system return No such file or directory
sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
test if it's working
subl
This is for Sublime Text 3.
Here are the full instructions to do this (for Sublime Text 3):
Please check your System Integrity Protection status by the following command:
$ csrutil status
If it's enabled, please follow these steps:
Boot to the Recovery OS of OS X by restarting your machine and holding down Command + R at startup.
Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu.
Run the following command:
$ csrutil disable
$ reboot
This is due to a security feature of OS X called System Integrity Protection, which will protect against unauthorised access to system locations and processes. So if this feature is enabled, you won't be able to modify the content of /usr/bin.
Create a symlink from /usr/bin to ~/bin:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin ~/bin
Create a symlink from the Sublime Text 3 CLI tool to ~/bin:
$ sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl ~/bin
Test it.
$ subl .
following works with me. I have Sublime version 3 and posting it here if someone is looking for help:
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /bin/subl
It seems like in Yosemite the command is actually for Sublime 3, but I may be mistaken:
ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/
On MacOS 11, this command worked for me to establish a symlink for Sublime Merge. The main difference seems to be calling ln with the -sv instead of -s:
ln -sv "/Applications/Sublime Merge.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/smerge" /usr/local/bin/smerge