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Suffix aliases are the only reason I'm considering to switch to ZSH but I want to stick with bash. So is it possible to have something like suffix aliases in bash?

For those that doesn't know what a suffix alias is, the following in ZSH

alias -s cpp=vi
filename.cpp

will run vi with filename.cpp as first argument

Note that something like xdg-open or gnome-open is not sufficient, I want bash to execute a command when a file name is entered

edit: completion is quite important to me. Therefore if the beginning of a filename is typed then it would be nice if the rest of the filename would be completed when the TAB key is pressed.

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This Q was crossposted: stackoverflow.com/questions/9058190/suffix-aliases-in-bash – fossfreedom♦ May 23 '12 at 19:34
Closed as it was answered on Stack Overflow – Marco Ceppi♦ May 23 '12 at 19:54
@MarcoCeppi It's not entirely answered yet, the completion bit is missing. Thanks for unclosing. – brillout.com May 23 '12 at 20:03
@brillout.com - I would suggest you pursue this further on SO - it has a good answer. If you are looking for completion, then you may wish to keep editing your Q there to bump it up the activity list. You may also wish to raise a small bounty on your Q to give it more prominence. Thanks. – fossfreedom♦ May 23 '12 at 20:09

closed as too localized by Marco Ceppi♦ May 23 '12 at 19:53

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