Question

I have a very simple function

function filefinder
{
  FILE=$1; test -f $FILE || FILE=`find . -name $FILE`; /usr/bin/geany $FILE
}
alias geany=filefinder

But I would like other editors to use the same function. How can I do that? Say, I would like to add alias nano=filefinder. Obviously I wouldn’t like to hardwire either geany or nano.

Answer 1

How about:

function filefinder
    {
        FILE=$2; ED=$1; test -f $FILE || FILE=`find . -name $FILE`; /usr/bin/$ED $FILE;
    }
    alias geany="filefinder geany"
    alias gedit="filefinder gedit"
    alias nano="filefinder nano"

I assumed your distro keeps all the execs in /usr/bin