---
tags: [Sublime Text 2]
slug: automatically-open-sublime-text-projects-in-a-directory
title: Automatically open Sublime Text projects in a directory
date: "2013-05-15T00:00:00+02:00"
---

I usually start Sublime Text 2 from the command line to work,  depending
on the case, on the content of a directory or on a project (materialized
with a `*.sublime-project` file).

It ends up with one of the following commands :

- `subl .`
- `subl my-project.sublime-project`

Here is the snippet I added to my .bashrc file to have the `subl`
command automatically "guess" what I want. It does the following:

- If a path is given (subl "my/file.txt"), it opens the file.
- If nothing is given and a .sublime-project file exists in the current
  directory, it opens it
- If nothing is given and no .sublime-project file has been found, it
  opens the folder.

{{< highlight bash >}}
function project_aware_subl {
  project_file=$(ls *.sublime-project 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)
  subl ${*:-${project_file:-.}}
}
alias subl="project_aware_subl"
{{< /highlight >}}