Open file with Quick Look from command shell

Question

Mac OS X has the very convenient open command to open any file from the command line in the same way that the Finder would.

thilo$ open a.pdf

Is there a similar command for opening the file with Quick Look?

Andrew McGregor · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-09 05:48:29Z

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qlmanage -p file will do what you want, I think.

answered Jan 9 '10 at 5:48

Andrew McGregor
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	`qlmanage -p /PATH/TO/FILE` works like a charm. If you need more info check `man qlmanage` – Chealion Jan 9 '10 at 8:39
	Nice. I'll alias that to "ql". – Thilo Jan 10 '10 at 0:56
	I have it aliased to `qlmanage -p 2>/dev/null` to suppress error messages. – Doug Harris Feb 25 '10 at 16:56

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