This is driving me crazy. I'm running OSX and until today I had Sublime Text 2 installed. After installing Sublime Text 3, when I enter the 'subl' command the terminal logs:
Unable to find application named 'Sublime Text 2'
I've tried everything. I've tried
$ rm ~/bin/subl
Then
$ ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl ~/bin/subl
I've also tried going in to usr directly and removing the subl command. When I do this, the subl command will sometimes work while I remain in one directory, but once I switch directories it goes back to giving me the message
Unable to find application named 'Sublime Text 2'
With Sublime Text 2 I had subl entered as an alias. I also tried going in and unaliasing subl like this:
unalias subl
And I've tried re-creating the alias using
/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl
Again, this will work for a while, but once I change directories it stops working.
Any advice on what to try next? I'm at a loss. I can't understand why it works for a while, then stops working.
Check your .bashrc file, and .bash_profile and see if it's aliased in there. Both of these are in your home directory ~.
nano ~/.bashrc
nano ~/.bash_profile
No need to sudo as you own these documents.
I am trying to access and manipulate the .gitignore file in Sublime via the terminal and I ran into this:
subl .gitignore
-bash: subl: command not found
Why can't it find it?
From the official documentation:
The first task is to make a symlink to subl. Assuming you've placed Sublime Text 2 in the Applications folder, and that you have a ~/bin directory in your path, you can run:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
I have Sublime Text 2 installed on a Mac, and have made a link on the command line as described in the docs.
When opening files from the terminal, as in:
$ subl foo.txt
A Sublime Text window will open, but inside that window foo.txt will only open about one out of every three times or so. I've tried moving the link to a different folder in the path, creating it with sudo, etc., but no luck so far.
Any idea how to fix this?
Had the same problem for a while now. Add the following line to your .bash_profile:
alias subl='subl && sleep 0.1 && subl'
Now you can use subl filename_to_edit to open it.
If you are not sure if you configured subl command correctly, do the following. Run the first command for ST3 or the second for ST2:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
Make sure that ~/bin is in your $PATH. Then do the first step with .bash_profile.
Finally works as it should! Credit goes to these guys and chrisf for improvement.
I remember running into problems with subl before. And had to come up with a function to see if Sublime is running, if not launch it, see if it loaded. Then use "rmate" bash script and the associated "rsub" Sublime Text Package plugin to load in the specified file. However you should be able to use the OSX open command should work for what you need. I would also give the latest Sublime Text 3 Beta a try.
I've been having trouble modifying my path to add Sublime Text 2. I've added a ~/bin directory and run this command:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
The subl link appears in ~/bin. But I need to add the ~/bin directory to my path. I'm fairly new at this, and I don't know where my path is. I've looked around, and found that the likely files are either .profile, .bash_profile or .bashrc
I don't have a .bash_profile. To .profile and .bashrc I added
PATH=$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
I'm tryng to use Sublime Text from the terminal, for example by typing subl.
I'm following the steps from Sublime Text's website:
Setup
The first task is to make a symlink to subl. Assuming you've placed Sublime Text 2 in the Applications folder, and that you have a ~/bin directory in your path, you can run:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
I keep getting permission denied : ~/bin/subl: Permission Denied
I have been searching around for a similar problem but can't find one that's applicable. Can someone point me to the right direction?
I am assuming that you don't have the bin directory. You can do the following:
cd
mkdir bin
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
ln -s will create a alias of the subl file in your bin directory and you will be able to run the command.
If this still doesn't work you will have to edit your .bash_profile. You can do it by following commands: (NOTE: For this to work you need to have done the above steps already.)
Open your .bash_profile:
cd // this will get you back to home directory
vim .bash_profile // this will open your .bash_profile file
Edit .bash_profile: press I to get into "insert" mode and add following:
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
Save and exit. Press Esc to get into command mode:
:wq // saves and close file
exit // exits terminal
Reopen the terminal:
subl --help
That should bring up the help for Sublime Text.
My personal preference for the path to the third-party application-specific symbolic links (e.g. subl, brew, github, mate, etc) is:
/usr/local/bin
Why not /usr/bin/?
/usr/bin is a "sacred" place. It is generally recommended to store static binaries that are maintained by package management systems. subl is not this case.
subl is not stable enough to be stored in /usr/bin with other basic BSD binaries (e.g. find, man, make, etc). You must modify/delete subl symbolic link manually if (a) the developers of Sublime Text Editor decide to change its app name in the future releases (as BBEdit Lite was changed to TextWrangler after version 6.1), or (b) you may simply wish to uninstall Sublime Text Editor.
Therefore, I suggest you execute the following line, assuming /usr/local/bin/ exists:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
Check whether "~/bin/" is included in the path.
A better options is to create the symlink in /usr/bin directory instead.
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/bin/subl