The mate command was not found?

March, 31 2008 11:02 AM

Today I got my new macbook pro and have been migrating everything with very little problems. I did however get a little confused when I tried typing mate . in a directory and had expected textmate to open it up as a project. Instead, I got the following:

-bash: mate: command not found

WIth a little googling I found the solution:

ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate ~/bin/mate

Hopefully this gets googled so people will find the solution faster! :)

Comments:

me on April, 24 2008 04:06 AM

Hi. I found your page when I googled "mate command not found." Thanks a lot, but I needed to make a little change to get it to work for me. I upgraded to Leopard by choosing the "Archive and Install" option, and there wasn't a "bin" directory in my user home directory. I put the link in /usr/sbin like this: sudo ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate /usr/sbin Thanks again for posting this so people can find it quickly.

lame ror/mate user on June, 12 2008 03:11 AM

symlink works great. I couldn't even find a mate file :D shame on me, I am lame ;] thx for this simple advise!

James Somers on June, 13 2008 01:13 AM

Sometimes the trivial solution (linking to the appropriate resource, something every unix hacker learnt in the mid '80s) works. I eagerly await the day you exceed $80 billable hours and get your name on the front page (http://engineyard.com/whoweare) of "your" company. (I'm just being an asshole because it's easy, and because it must be fun to get a non-spam comment on your blog!)

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