Lauching Sublime Text From Command Line

Question

After following this tutorial, I cannot launch Sublime Text from command line. How can I fix this?

score 54 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 21 '17 at 07:12

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After following this tutorial and facing the reported problem, I googled it and realised that I had forgot to create a symbolic link.

sudo ln -s /opt/sublime/sublime_text /usr/bin/subl

Now the problem is solved :)

edited Jun 21 '17 at 07:12

Bilesh Ganguly

answered Mar 27 '13 at 20:34

sonnuforevis

score 42 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '14 at 08:52

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For recent versions of Ubuntu and Sublime Text 3, I'm adding a symlink like this:

sudo ln -s /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text /usr/local/bin/subl

Then I can execute it from terminal like subl myFile.php.

answered Apr 22 '14 at 08:52

Arda

score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 11 '18 at 12:38

8

For anyone who is struggling for sublime text 3.

After creating symlink for opening ST3 use :

subl .

dont use:

sublime .

edited Oct 11 '18 at 12:38

abu_bua

answered Oct 11 '18 at 12:13

arjun sah

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 18 '18 at 09:40

2

for those who install sublime in Ubuntu Software, just type

sudo ln -s /snap/sublime-text/38/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text /usr/local/bin/subl

answered Nov 18 '18 at 09:40

Morris Tai

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited May 01 '17 at 20:11

2

Personally I prefer creating an alias in ~/.bashrc, to avoid having to keep track of symbolic links:

alias subl=/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text

edited May 01 '17 at 20:11

David Foerster

answered May 01 '17 at 18:42

gaterush

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