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

While sarbottam's answer is the proper way to do it, if you're lazy like me, and use subl to just do an subl ., you can add an alias to your ~/.bash_profile

alias subl="/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"

and either open a new terminal window or run the .bash_profile

Answer 2

This is what worked for me.

First, make sure you are in home folder:

cd ~

Step 1: Remove the /Users/Ram/bin/subl directory by using following command line:

rm -rf /Users/Ram/bin/subl

Step 2: Create this folder again using following command line:

mkdir /Users/Ram/bin/subl

STEP 3: use the following command to create a symbolic link to sublime:

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

(using sudo before this command overrides permission issues)

Step 4: Now you can test if subl works:

subl test.py

This should open up sublime with new test.py file created.

Answer 3

This solved my Sublime terminal (subl) command issue after battling for a while on Yosemite:

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

Here is the source.

Answer 4

I'm documenting this because it worked on my machine and might fix the problem for people who see "file already exists` when they run the command suggested in sarbbottam's answer. I'm not sure I can fully explain it so I may use the wrong terms.

When I copy/pasted sarbbottam's command, my terminal reported that the file already existed. I tried copy/pasting several Stack Overflow answers to this problem into my terminal, so I had symlinks called subl and sublime in my /usr/local/bin directory. I could see the file when I listed all files in that directory with ls -a. I tried to open the subl directory in a text editor, and it said that the file didn't exist.

I deleted the subl symlink in /usr/local/bin, ran the command, and it worked.

I think I accidentally made one for Sublime Text 2 or something, and just figured I'd be overwriting the last one which was not the case.

Answer 5

If you are using Sublime Text 2 try this:

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

or, if your path is in /usr/bin/ instead /usr/local/bin:

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

Answer 6

There might be an issue with having multiple symbolic links to the same target. I removed my link "subl" and my link "sublime" still works.