[Feature Request] Pass Arguments to Program

[HeyItsJono]

I'm coming from Launchy and just was wondering if there's a way to pass arguments to a program/shortcut. Launchy allowed you to search for something, then hit tab, and a little arrow would appear and anything you typed after it would be redirected as an input argument to the program.

For example:

I could type Find, press tab, input a search query, and press Enter, and it would open an Everything search window with that query.

Is there any way to do that with ueli?

[carlitorendon]

Hello @HeyItsJono, long time user of Ueli, really like it. I can resonate that this is area where features can be added. So far (to my knowledge, please everybody feel free to add), there are a few ways to deal with this:

1) Use a command line tool whereas you have a program on your filesystem that receives your arguments and does whatever you want. So you would summon it with something like > myScript.ps arg1 arg2 ...

This will launch a new terminal window run the script and pass the arguments. Here are the things that can be improved:

• This leaves a window that has to be manually closed
• Passing arguments that have single/double quotation and weird symbols can be hit or miss depending on the platform you're running ueli, the interpreter running your script (PowerShell, CMD, bash on mac etc)

2) For websites / REST calls (GET) you can create a search engine in Ueli and define a {{query}} variable and pass your arguments there. This of course is not what you asked BUT the reason I bring it up is because it offers the kind of "clean" experience you're referring. Just issue a call with <receiving-program> arg1 arg2 and then the thing just handing it to the intended receiving program (in this case the browser is the only option)