在 Windows 上的 Ubuntu 上从 Bash 打开 Sublime Text

Question

I can't seem to figure out how to open Sublime Text 2 from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. Ultimately I would like to be able to use subl . to open the contents of the directory I am in.

On my machine, Sublime Text 2 is installed at C:\\Program Files\\Sublime Text 2 . sublime_text.exe is located in this directory. In Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, I can access any files located on C through /mnt/c/ .

I tried setting an alias: alias subl="/mnt/c/Program\\ Files/Sublime\\ Text\\ 2/sublime_text.exe" . However, upon trying subl . I get the following error:

cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

How can I set this up properly?

Answer 1

It's now possible to launch Windows executables (like Sublime Text) from the Bash on Ubuntu command line.

You should also be able to set an alias to use it from the command line (as you were trying to do). Mine is as follows (and works fine):

alias subl='"/mnt/c/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/subl.exe"'

Note the second set of quotes: this is necessary because of the spaces in the file path. Alternatively you can escape the spaces (as you did in your example).

Answer 2

Nick F's answer is correct, but there is an important caveat.

If your intent is to edit Linux files using Sublime Text, then you should reconsider. Doing so can cause data corruption, as I've discovered first hand.

See here for more details on why: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-not-change-linux-files-using-windows-apps-and-tools/

I realize this is an old post, but I'm hoping this will serve as a warning to other users attempting to set up Sublime Text to edit Linux files.

Answer 3

Creating alias will not let you use

subl path_to_file

instead, you can just link the subl application to your /bin folder

 sudo ln -s /mnt/c/Program\ Files/Sublime\ Text\ 3/subl.exe /bin/subl

Done!!

If there is not /bin folder do whereis ls and replace /bin with the output directory

ps- /bin is a standard directory in Unix-like OS that contains the executable(short form of binaries)

Answer 4

It can be done.

You can edit remote files with your local Sublimeusing RemoteSubl, a SublimeText plugin:

https://github.com/randy3k/RemoteSubl

Works out of the box for this scenario, and also takes care about diferent file subsystems don't messing around each other.

If anyone wants to improve.. a condition to detects if the file is in the windows or linux realm, and lanch the appropiate editor... with a different theme... Geez! that would be great.

Answer 5

This one is working for me by adding it in .zshrc Debian in WSL with Windows 10 Pro

alias subl="/mnt/c/Program\\ Files/Sublime\\ Text\\ 3/sublime_text.exe"

Answer 6

https://github.com/grigger/subl-wsl

Here's a more complete script I just wrote starting from some stackoverflow answers, that will open in sublime both files with Windows or Linux paths.

ie subl ~/something will open sublime in C:\\Users\\<usr>\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\...\\LocalState\\rootfs subl /mnt/d/something will open D:\\something

I know it's quite a while after the answer, but maybe some other folks will be helped by this in the future.

Answer 7

Just want to highlight to other users that there was indeed an update in WSL in May 2019, based on my reading it is now OK to edit Linux files from windows, as long as you use the 9P fileserver (eg \\\\wsl$\\ ). This is a HUGE improvement!

Answer 8

Man this is a very simply thing, dont use Windows programs in Linux machines without something like Wine.

Install SublimeText using the linux installation files according to your dist.