til/cursor/allow-cursor-to-be-launched-from-cli.md

Allow Cursor To Be Launched From CLI

It is nice to be able to open Cursor for a specific project directly from the terminal like so:

$ cd ~/dev/my/project

$ cursor .

For the cursor launcher binary to be available like that, we have to find it and add it to the path.

It is probably located in the /Applications folder and within that nested down a couple directories is a bin directory that contains the binary we're looking for.

ls /Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin
 bin/
├──  code*
├──  cursor*
└──  cursor-tunnel*

The cursor binary is what we want, so let's add that to our path. In my case, I'll add this to my ~/.zshrc file.

export PATH="/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin:$PATH"