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Quicklook From the Command Line
This Mac OS X hint shows how to use Quicklook from inside Quicksilver. I’m a big Quicksilver fan, but frankly didn’t get very excited since just hitting “return” launches Preview as fast as hitting “tab->q” and then waiting for the AppleScript to run. But, along the way, part of the hint involved creating a small shell script:
#!/bin/bash qlmanage -p "$@" >& /dev/null &
Using the script, you can launch QuickLook from the command line. Now that’s handy!
qlmanage is a very chatty program that performs operations on the QuickLook cache and generators. I saved the above script as ql.
Posted by windley on December 10, 2007 9:20 AM
Comment from Anthony Lawrence at December 10, 2007 12:10 PM
I called mine "looky" :-)
I also made a change or two that makes me happier.. see http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/looky.html
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