Creates aliases for all your mac applications without name clashes. e.g. 'preview' would open '/Applications/Preview.app'. To use, add this to your .bashrc.

.applications.sh

#
# Creates aliases for all your mac applications in $PATHS (defined
# below) without name clashes.  e.g. 'preview' would open
# '/Applications/Preview.app'.  To use, add this to your .bashrc.
#
# if [ -f ~/.applications.sh ]; then
#     . ~/.applications.sh
# fi
#
PATHS="/Applications /Developer/Applications"
for p in $PATHS; do
    for f in $p/*.app; do
	a=`basename $f`
	n=`echo $a | sed s/\.app// | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | tr '[. ]' '-'`
	if [[ `which $n` == '' ]]; then
	    alias $n="open $f"
	fi
    done
done