Bash – Open any .c file with Sublime Text using a terminal command

bashfile opening

The IDE that I use is Sublime Text 3.

If I want to open a file through a terminal with Sublime Text, I have to type:

subl <file>.c

I want to edit my .bashrc so that any .c file automatically opens in Sublime Text. How do I do this?

Example:

> test.c

test.c now opens in Sublime Text.

Best Answer

This won't work under normal circumstances. Only way I could think of is logging each command to a file (e.g. with script and a modified PS1 for bash to rewrite is at any command) and then parse this log file at each new line (e.g. further modify PS1) for some regex ending in .c to start sublime.

Does not sound like it would be worth the time, maybe some alias s="subl " in .bashrc would make you more happy, combined with tab completion it should be a bit easier for you already.

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If someone wants to record their terminal sessions automatically--including SSH sessions(!)--using the script utility, here is how.

Add the following line at the end of .bashrc in your home directory, or otherwise /etc/bash.bashrc if you only want to record all users' sessions. We test for shell's parent process not being script and then run script.

For Linux:

test "$(ps -ocommand= -p $PPID | awk '{print $1}')" == 'script' || (script -f $HOME/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S")_shell.log)

For BSD and macOS, change script -f to script -F:

test "$(ps -ocommand= -p $PPID | awk '{print $1}')" == 'script' || (script -F $HOME/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S")_shell.log)

That's all!

Now when you open a new terminal you'll see:

Script started, file is /home/username/file_name.log

script will write your sessions to a file in your home directory naming them something like 30-Nov-11_00-11-12_shell.log as a result.

More customization:

You can append your sessions to one large file rather than creating a new one for every session with script -a /path/to/single_log_file
You can adjust where the files are written to by changing the path after script -f (Linux) or script -F (BSD and macOS)

This answer assumes that you have script installed, of course. On Debian-based distributions, script is part of the bsdutils package.

Bash Script – Open Any Kind of Application

There is already an external command for this. There is nothing new that needs to be written. The command is xdg-open. It will open a file based on its MIME type association. Here is an example:

xdg-open file.png

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