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10.5: Use Quick Look from the command line

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Friday November 16, 2007. 11:30 PM
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For all you Leopard users out there, here's a handy tip on how to use Quick Look from the command line.Leopard ships with a command called qlmanage. The -p option shows a preview of the file passed to the command. In the terminal, type the following:qlmanage -p thefileAs you'll see, it also generates a ton of text output when run. You can prevent this by creating the following shell script:#!/bin/bashqlmanage -p "$@" >& /dev/null &The >& /dev/null prevents output from displaying, and the final & runs the process in the background so a new prompt displays in Terminal. Save this script as an executable file and store it somewhere in your PATH (I stored mine in a home bin folder used for custom-made scripts). I recommend naming it something short like ql.When using ...
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