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:

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

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 2

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.