Sublime Text subl command line access on windows

June 01, 2014Sublime TextEdit Post

If you are a terminal or command line power user, you often want to open in from Sublime Text right from the cmd line. Often something like this:

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On OSX and Linux, we have the subl command that comes with Sublime Text, to install it you can follow the instructions here.

However, on windows we need to do it a little different by creating something called a doskey.

So, if you wish to use the subl command to open files and folders from the command line in windows, you can use the following:

doskey subl="C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe" $*

Paste the above into your command line prompt and this will make the subl command available to you.

If you are using Sublime Text 3, use the following instead:

doskey subl="C:\Program Files\Sublime Text\sublime_text.exe" $*