Terminal Tip: Use Quick Look from the Leopard command line

Maybe a bit easier to add to ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile as an alias as follows -- alias ql='qlmanage -p “$@” > /dev/null 2>&1'

You can type "ql *.jpg" and get the same results as above.

Making another "chunk of my day @ the terminal" more enjoyable :-)

For some reason, this only shows reduced-size images in quicklook. they're shown with the filename and info on the right, and the small image on the left. Not the same as just selecting the images and hitting Space.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support full-screen in this way, though.

#7: No, I'd say it's a picture of an iPhone screenshot.

Umm... Is that a picture of quicklook running a slideshow on your iPhone? Do tell!

Kamera & Micah: not just being a programmer: try being a UNIX systems admin... I live in my terminal.

This is a great tip, thanks :)

Great tip! For an even easier way to access Quick Look from Terminal, add this to your /etc/bashrc file:

function ql()
{
qlmanage -p “$@” > /dev/null 2>&1
}

Now all you need to do is type in `ql *.jpg` to preview all JPGs. This hides all of the output text of the command, so you don't ruin your scrollback.

Great tip! I love how Apple makes things like Spotlight and Quick Look available from the Terminal. They're very useful when shell scripting!

Kamera: Its called being a programmer dude.
In the words of biggie, if you don't know, now you know ni**a.

why would somebody spend a "chunk of their day" in the terminal??

i'm honestly curious...