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10.5: Use Quick Look from the command line
Authored by: ckromero on Apr 02, '12 09:00:29AM

Note that in 10.7 text output from using quickview is minimal, but invoking with '&' (bg job) doesn't seem to matter, both stall the terminal until you quit qlmanage.

In order to invoke Preview (which creates it's own process) I use:
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#!/bin/bash
open -a Preview $1
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and call as follows:
p someimage.png



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