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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:14:56+00:00

Couldn’t Create Link Creating the link /usr/bin/mate failed with the following reason: Operation not

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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.

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  1. Editorial Team

    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/

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