Comments on: Quicksilver and the Command Line http://gigaom.com/apple/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:59:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Papabear http://gigaom.com/apple/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315877 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:10:38 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/18/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315877 Doing a search to figure out how to batch rename a bunch of files with quicksilver and stumbled upon your page. The question is here but there’s not an answer as of yet, at least as far as I could find. I’m not very good with these things so forgive if this is an ignorant question.
Have you found a way to batch rename files with quicksilver yet?

]]> By: Nick http://gigaom.com/apple/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315876 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:16:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/18/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315876 @Jackson The command plugin doesn’t catalog your command line binaries. You type your command after hitting “.” and then tab over to “Run as a text command in Terminal” or “Run as a command in shell.”

]]> By: Jackson http://gigaom.com/apple/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315875 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:05:39 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/18/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315875 UGH! I installed Command Line Tool, and I’m very proficient with Quicksilver (and the concept of tabbing within it, to the next area in the pane, to start an action. I have many actions configured, but I can’t seem to get kill to work at all. Kill doesn’t even show up when I type it in the action field. (After Selecting an Application in the first QS field).

Any thoughts on this? I’ve verified that Command Line Tool is installed, but the description I’ve read makes it sound like this plug-in is made for Accessing QS from the command line, NOT the other way around. Hopefully someone can shed some more light on this topic.

THANKS!

]]> By: Lordmike http://gigaom.com/apple/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315874 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:16:14 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/18/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315874 Huh, I hadn’t even thought of that.
I never or rarely use the second pane. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/apple/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315873 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:42:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/18/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315873 you can even do Kill processes from Quicksilver. you load the app name in the main window, and then Kill in the second pane.

Let me look at renaming with Quicksilver. I’ll get back to you.

]]> By: Lordmike http://gigaom.com/apple/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315872 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:35:27 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/18/quicksilver-and-the-command-line/#comment-315872 It was on TAB I saw the why to get quicksilver first time. But the only thing I use it for is to start apps.
Everytime I need to do terminal stuff, I go into terminal. So this could be a great way for me to want to learn quicksilver more.

Could you please tell me what to do in quicksilver to rename many files at the same time? Like I had a few hundred .cbr and .cbz files which I wanted to rename to .rar and .zip.
I had to use the mv command in terminal.. which became this for cbz to zip:
for f in *.cbz; do mv ./”$f” “${f%cbz}zip”; done

How could I do this using quicksilver? Going into terminal everytime I need such things done like kill -9 would also be nice to do from quicksilver after checking the pid with ps x :)

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