Open file inside a running instance of KDE Kate.

kateopen

#/bin/bash

function full_path()
{
    if [[ $1 == /* ]]; then
        echo $1
    else
        echo `pwd`/$1
    fi
}

if [ $# != 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: `basename $0` <file-name>"
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f $1 ]; then
    echo $1 does not exist.
    exit 1
fi

qdbus `qdbus | grep org.kde.kate | head -n 1` \
    /MainApplication org.kde.Kate.Application.openUrl \
    file:`full_path $1` utf-8 >> /dev/null