Sublime Text 3 and Terminal prompt for OS X Mavericks?

Question

I\'m trying to set-up Sublime Text 3 on OS X Mavericks and getting levels of frustration.

I\'ve followed all of the usual suspects in regards to installation and se

Answer 1

Rather than having cumbersome sudo links to setup I prefer to use a simple bash function and use the native Mac open command:

#somewhere in your .bashrc or .zshrc
sublime () {
    open -a "Sublime Text" $@
}

Now all you have to do is sublime . whenever you want to open up sublime from a given folder. Obviously you can simply rename it subl.

Note The name to write in the -a parameter is the name of the application as stored in the the /Applications folder: