My Document Index

This is a short, handy, bash script for quickly opening documents from the command line.

Features

• Open any local file with with a short terminal command.
• Decide what program to open with depending on the file-extension.
• Auto-completion

Setup

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Create a config file.
   • Use my-document-index-config-example and fill in with your own documents.
   • Rename the file (remove '-example').
   • If you want to, that file can be moved to another location. If so, remember to change the config_path variable in the my-document-index file.
3. Create an alias.
   • Add an alias in .bashrc or similar to easy reach the my-document-index script.
   • For example:

     alias index="~/git/my-document-index/my-document-index"

4. Setup the auto-completion
   • Make sure the completion/index file is run on shell startup. I recommend putting it in a separate directory, for example ~/.bash_completion and then running all files in that folder by adding the following to .bashrc.

     # Bash completion
     for f in $HOME/.bash_completion/* ; do source $f ; done

5. Update shell environment

   source ~/.bashrc
   

Usage

With the configurations done in the setup example, to open ~/Documents/my_cool_document.odf with the system default program, do:

index my-cool-document