Subl command not working - command not found

Question

Having loads of difficulty getting this set up. I've fixed up my .bash_profile, created the symlink using the following command from the sublime website:

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

Yet when I input that command I get:

ln: /Users/my_username/bin/subl: No such file or directory

It appears my terminal is looking at the wrong place for the file? Why is it trying to point to a bin folder on my home directory?

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/subl

I instead did:

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

Answer 2

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 you path is in /usr/bin/ instead /usr/local/bin

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

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