Subl command not working - command not found

Question

I\'m having difficulty getting this set up. I fixed my .bash_profile, and created the symlink using the following command from the Sublime website:

Answer 1

My similar problem was solved simply by omitting the quotes. So if you're working with:

ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/sub

I instead did:

ln -s /Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl ~/bin/subl

Answer 2

Create the symlink in /usr/local/bin instead of ~/bin and make sure that /usr/local/bin in in PATH.

$ ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/.
$ echo $PATH

If you don't find /usr/local/bin/, then add the following lines to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/; export PATH

Answer 3

At my end subl was working fine but git was unable to access it. And was displaying these errors

subl -n -w: subl: command not found
error: There was a problem with the editor 'subl -n -w'.

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For Mac OS X in the file ~/.gitconfig under [core] I had to put this code to solve the issue on my end.

editor = /Applications/Sublime\\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl  -n -w

Answer 4

"Launch Sublime Text from the command line on OSX" worked for me. I use Sublime Text 3 and only had to copy and paste the commands below to the command-line. I did this at the root level

$ cd ~

• If you're using Sublime Text 3 copy then paste this to the command line:

  // Sublime Text 3
  $ ln -sv "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
  

• If you're using Sublime Text 2 copy then paste this to the command line:

  // Sublime Text 2
  $ ln -sv "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
  

Now test it out to see if it works:

1. Open a new file from the command line:

   $  subl test.rb  // it should open new file test.rb in Sublime Text
   

2. Open a project folder:

   $ subl dir/myProject // opens a new folder inside Sublime
   

3. Launch Sublime app:

   $ subl // launches Sublime
   

To open Sublime Help for more detailed options use:

$ subl -h // Sublime help

Answer 5

I tried several combinations using sudo and also including or excluding leading / and escaping spaces in the Sublime\ Text.app package.

What worked to create the desired symlink was:

ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl

I did not have to use sudo or modify $PATH.

For reference, I am on Mac OS Mojave 10.14.

echo $PATH currently (and without any modification by me) shows the following:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

You can tell if this worked by typing which subl immediately after running the ln command above. If you don't get a line of output showing you where Bash found your subl command then you don't have it.

Answer 6

You could just add the following to the shell config file .bash_profile or .zshrc (Apple replaced bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina):

alias subl="open -a /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app" 

These are the steps to edit .zshrc and save the changes (press ESC and :wq! to save and exit):

$ cd ~
$ vim .zshrc
$ source .zshrc

To verify that it works, try the following and it should open up Sublime Text.

$ subl .zshrc