Creating `subl` alias does not actually work [closed]

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After I upgraded Maverick, this all happened.

But my alias subl no longer works for Sublime Text Editor.

So I did this :

sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/bin/subl

Which successfully creates the executable in my /usr/bin/ folder where all my other executables are. However, even after restarting Terminal, it still does not respond to :

which subl

Or just :

subl

Answer 1

Your command

sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/bin/subl

has "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" both in quotes and with an escaped space between Sublime and Text. Use one or the other.

So, first run

sudo rm /usr/bin/subl

to get rid of the old, incorrect symlink. Then, run

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

(without the escape) and you should be all set.