Found

Overview

Found is a simple wrapper script over locate and xdg-open. It searches files with locate and let you to choose the file to open interactively.

Usage

Check out found and put the script into one of your PATH directories. Call found with some terms that appears in the target file name. For example:

$ found lamport pdf

Sample output:

[1] 568998.Lamport - 1998 - The part-time parliament.pdf.xml
[2] 595489.Lamport - 1998 - The part-time parliament-annotated.pdf.xml
[3] lamport-paxos.pdf
[4] Cheap paxos - Lamport, Massa - 2004.pdf
[5] Consensus on transaction commit - Gray, Lamport - 2006.pdf
[6] Fast Paxos - Lamport - 2006.pdf
[7] LATEX A Document Preparation System User's Guide and Reference Manual - Lamport - 1986.pdf
[8] LaTeX2e The macro package for TeX - Lamport - 1994.pdf
[9] Paxos made simple - Lamport - 2001.pdf
[10] Solved problems, unsolved problems and non-problems in concurrency - Lamport - 1985.pdf
[11] Specifying systems The TLA language and tools for hardware and software engineers - Lamport - 2002.pdf
[12] The Byzantine Generals Problem - Lamport, Shostak, Pease - 1982.pdf
[13] The part-time parliament - Lamport - 1998.pdf
[14] Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system - Lamport - 1978.pdf
[15] Using Time Instead of Timeout for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems. - Lamport - 1984.pdf
[16] Vertical paxos and primary-backup replication - Lamport, Malkhi, Zhou - 2009.pdf

Which file to open: 

Then you may choose the file to open. If there's only one match, the file will be opened directly.

Behind the scene

Found is deadly simple. First, it joins all the terms from the command line into a locate query, e.g.:

$ found lamport pdf

turns into:

$ locate -b -i "*lamport*pdf*"

After you specified the file to open, found will call xdg-open to open the file with the most appropriate program.