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piping commands in spotlight
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May 12, 2005, 02:27 AM
 
if for example i wanted to lookup a word in the dictionary, is there a way i can enter the query through spotllight? i don't want to mix apples and oranges here but if for example you were looking for pictures in a specific color space, you'd search for the desired images and then add an argument for "kind:"and then add rgb, cmyk, etc.

if it's not already there, i think it would be cool to offer what firefox has of using the "dict" command followed by the word to be defined.

in spotlight, something like "dict:<word to define>" or "define:<word to define>" would be cool. obviously if you already see or have typed the word, you could just Ctrl-click to define it.

what do you guys think?

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