title: Quicker way to navigate directories in Linux?
body: <p>Suppose I'm at a terminal in Linux/UNIX and I run <code>ls</code> and see the following displayed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>my_file_1.txt my_file_2.txt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now I want to open the first one in gedit, or maybe it's a folder and I want to enter it.</p>
  
  <p>Is running <code>gedit my_file_1.txt</code> the fastest way to do this? Suppose the file has a long and awkward name, is there any shortcut along the lines of <code>gedit ls[0]</code> - where I'm asking gedit to open the first item in the list returned?</p>
  
  <p>If there's not, I won't lose any sleep over it, but if such a shortcut exists I'd make use of it, especially when dealing with lengthy file and folder names.</p>