lists the files found by find, waits for user input then uses xdg-open to open the selected file with the appropriate program.
usage: findopen path expression [command]
With the third optional input you can specify a command to use other than xdg-open, for example you could echo the filename to stdout then pipe it to another command.
To get it to work for files with spaces it gets a bit messier...
findopen() { files=( $(find "$1" -iname "$2" | tr ' ' '@') ); select file in "${files[@]//@/ }"; do ${3:-xdg-open} "$file"; break; done }
You can replace the @ with any character that probably wont be in a file name.
displays the output of ls -l without the rest of the crud. pretty simple but useful.
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