Terminal / Symlink: How to add a directory to my path?

[gguerini]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to follow the instructions below:

The first task is to make a symlink to subl. Assuming you've placed Sublime Text 2 in the Applications folder, and that you have a ~/bin directory in your path, you can run:

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

When I try this command it tells me it can't find the directory:
/Users/gguerini/bin/subl: No such file or directory

What can I do??

Thanks a lot!

Guillermo

 

[gguerini]

Fixed:

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

 

[zubintehe]

I'm having the same problem and am now receiving this error message:

ln: /usr/bin/subl: Permission denied

Any suggestions of how to fix this?

 

[dove]

I'm having the same problem and am now receiving this error message:

ln: /usr/bin/subl: Permission denied

Any suggestions of how to fix this?

Don't do that. /usr/bin is a directory for system executables.

If you want you can do, "sudo ln -s /source/path /usr/local/bin/" (sudo will prompt you for your password).

Alternatively you can change your path. Create a file '.profile' in your home directory and type something in it like "export PATH=/foo/bar:$PATH".

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Fixed:

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

That's not the same thing at all. "~" is short for "my home directory". The reason you got an error is because you don't have a directory "bin" in your home dir. What you did is make a symlink in a system directory. That will work but it's messy.