Trying to connect Terminal to recognize “mate” command for TextMate

Question

Couldn't Create Link

Creating the link “/usr/bin/mate” failed with the following reason: Operation not permitted

I am getting this error when I attempt to link the terminal usage with TextMate.
I did this by going Help >> Terminal Usage...
And I tried to create a link in /usr/bin.

I think the problem is something to do with permission issue.
I am wondering if there is a way to work around this problem by changing bash file directly or something and make terminal recognize "mate" as a command.

Thank you for any suggestion.

Answer 1

Assuming Textmate is installed in /Applications the following command in the terminal should manually create the link for you:

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/mate /usr/bin

The command will ask you for your user account's password so it has the permissions necessary to create the link in /usr/bin/

Answer 2

There should be an option to create it in /usr/local/bin . Create it there. Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH .