How to open Atom editor from command line in OS X?

Question

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:

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Answer 1

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)

Answer 2

Open the application by name:

open -a 'Atom' FILENAME

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

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:

1. Open your ~/.profile using your choice of editor (in my case $ emacs ~/.kshrc)
2. Add this line: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"
3. Save and exit
4. Restart terminal or source ~/.profile
5. Test $ atom -h

Answer 6

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/<username>/AppData/Local/atom/app-<version>/resources/cli/apm.sh # or atom.sh