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Latest revision as of 10:53, 30 April 2026
Sublime Text - Text Editing, Done Right
How to open existing text files with Sublime Text from terminal?[edit]
- Open the terminal
- Key in subl path/to/file.txt where subl is the alias shorthand for sublime text
Explanation[edit]
1. Determine which shell you're using by running this in Terminal:
echo $SHELL
2. Edit the appropriate configuration file:
My result on macOS 
is
/bin/zsh
Choose appropriate configuration file
For Bash: ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc For Zsh (default on newer macOS): ~/.zshrc
3. Open the file with a text editor:
vi ~/.zshrc
4. Existing alias in the file:
alias subl='open -a "Sublime Text"'
5. Save the file, then reload the configuration:
source ~/.zshrc
How to open files with your favorite editor from the terminal?[edit]
Open Files in a GUI Editor from the Terminal
How to open and create non-existent files with Sublime Text from terminal?[edit]
1. First, edit your .zshrc file and remove the previously defined subl alias
2. Then add the new function definition
Open your
.zshrc
file:
vi ~/.zshrc
3. Find and remove the previous "subl" alias line, which looks something like:
alias subl='open -a "Sublime Text"'
Then add this function:
subl() {
for f in "$@"; do
[ -f "$f" ] || touch "$f"
done
open -a "Sublime Text" "$@"
}
This function creates a command subl that opens files in Sublime Text while automatically creating any non-existent files:
for f in "$@"- Loops through each filename you provide[ -f "$f" ] || touch "$f"- Checks if each file exists, creates it if notopen -a "Sublime Text" "$@"- Opens all files in Sublime Text
Simply put: It ensures all files exist before opening them in Sublime Text, preventing "file not found" errors.
4. Save the file, then reload the configuration:
source ~/.zshrc
5. Now it should work properly. Try creating a non-existent file:
subl non-exist.md
This should create the "non-exist.md" file and open it in Sublime Text.