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Posted by Lucy Dikeou
Lucy Dikeou
1,110 Points

My command lines always replies command not found to mate commands

any help would be awesome

3 Answers

Eben Smith
Eben Smith
5,170 Points
Eben Smith
Eben Smith
5,170 Points

This most likely means that you either don't have TextMate installed, or that you have not added it to your path.

If you are using Mac, this is good answer:

http://superuser.com/questions/201251/how-to-add-textmate-to-my-path-on-mac

Hope it helps!

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points
Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

You also might not have the command line commands installed for Textmate. Here's a bit more about installing the Textmate 2 command line stuff!

gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points
gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points

How to access Sublime text via terminal?

In the example mate hello.rb was entered. when i tried that nothing happened.

So what I did was opened sublime text, created the hello.rb file with the string 'puts "hello world" and saved it out to my main folder. from there in terminal i was able to type ruby hello.rb and the string appeared.

just looking how to do it the way he did.

thanks!