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qlmanage — QuickLook server tool. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/qlmanage.1.html>.

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Problem

How to use the qlmanage command: QuickLook server tool. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/qlmanage.1.html>.

Solution

qlmanage — QuickLook server tool. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/qlmanage.1.html>.

Display QuickLook for one or multiple files:

qlmanage -p {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Compute 300px wide PNG thumbnails of all JPEGs in the current directory and put them in a directory:

qlmanage {{*.jpg}} -t -s {{300}} {{path/to/directory}}

Reset QuickLook:

qlmanage -r

Code Snippets

Display QuickLook for one or multiple files

qlmanage -p {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Compute 300px wide PNG thumbnails of all JPEGs in the current directory and put them in a directory

qlmanage {{*.jpg}} -t -s {{300}} {{path/to/directory}}

Reset QuickLook

qlmanage -r

Context

tldr-pages: osx/qlmanage

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