What command can mount an SSH share and launch a file?

Question

I have a file on another Ubuntu machine. I want to access it from my machine on my LAN. I don't want to go into Nautilus to mount the share first and then browse to the file. I want a command that will connect via SSH automatically (by mounting its share if not already or however) and open that file on my machine in the associated program (assume I do have that program install on my machine).

Any simple way to do this? I will be putting this command into a launcher so I can just double-click it.

Answer 1

I assume you have sshfs set up ;)

#!/bin/bash

# Mount your sshfs
sshfs your_server:/sshfs_share /media/sshfs_share

#Use zenity to ask what file to open
file=$(zenity --entry --text "What file?")

# Or use a zenity file chooser
file=$(zenity --file-selection --title="Select a File)

# Open a file
gedit $file

For options with zenity, see zenity by example or man zenity

You can certainly elaborate on the script, adding error checking, check the existence of the file , etc, but that will get a good start.