Launch Sublime Text from the command line on OSX
Sublime Text includes a command line tool, subl
, to work with files on the command line. This can be used to open files and projects in Sublime Text, as well working as an EDITOR for unix tools, such as git and subversion.
Requirements
- Sublime text 2 or 3 installed in your system within
Applications
folder
Setup
In order to launch sublime from command line you only need to create a symlink /usr/local/bin/subl
point to sublime app, to do so run the following in the command line.
Sublime Text 2
ln -sv "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
Sublime Text 3
ln -sv "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl
Test it out
open a new file from the command line:
subl test.rb
it should open new file test.rb
in Sublime Text
open a project folder
subl dir/project
to launch Sublime app
subl
for more detailed options use the help:
subl -h
Config git to use Sublime Text as its editor globally
run the command as follows:
git config --global core.editor "subl -w"
to config git to use Sublime Text as editor only for a particular repository/project run the same command above without --global
option.
NOTE: In order to execute Sublime from the Command Line you must:
have created a directory where you actually place binaries /usr/local/bin
if not make it before creating a symlink
:
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
have /usr/local/bin
in your PATH environment variable, if not add by running the following command:
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
then reload the shell:
source ~/.bash_profile
test again.
Further info read from sublime docs
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