Installing Sublime Text's command line tool 'subl' in terminal, permission denied?

Question

I'm tryng to use Sublime Text from the terminal, for example by typing `subl`. I'm following the steps from Sublime Text's website: Setup 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 ``` I keep getting `permission denied : ~/bin/subl: Permission Denied` I have been searching around for a similar problem but can't find one that's applicable. Can someone point me to the right direction?

Accepted Answer

I am assuming that you don't have the bin directory. You can do the following:

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

`ln -s` will create a alias of the subl file in your bin directory and you will be able to run the command.

If this still doesn't work you will have to edit your .bash_profile. You can do it by following commands: (NOTE: For this to work you need to have done the above steps already.)

Open your .bash_profile:

```
cd                  // this will get you back to home directory
vim .bash_profile   // this will open your .bash_profile file
```

Edit .bash_profile: press I to get into "insert" mode and add following:

```
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
```

Save and exit. Press Esc to get into command mode:

```
:wq   // saves and close file
exit  // exits terminal
```

Reopen the terminal:

```
subl --help
```

That should bring up the help for Sublime Text.

Installing Sublime Text's command line tool 'subl' in terminal, permission denied?

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