How to “Quick Look” (result of pressing Space Bar in Finder) a filename printed by “ls” in iTerm2

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Simple question: is it possible to get the "Quick Look" of images and text files by clicking the results of ls in an iTerm2 window?

Can't find any relevant documentation anywhere, and this does not seem to work Terminal, but this is possible.

On my machine (macOS Sierra), I can triple-click a filename or folder after calling ls in iTerm2, and the Quick Look window pops up. Very neat!

You can install QLMarkdown plugin for Finder:

QLMarkdown is a simple QuickLook generator for Markdown files. It renders a preview of the selected Markdown file using Discount

It works for me but only if the file is executable. For example this runs a.sh in a new window:

echo say a>a.sh;chmod +x a.sh;open a.sh -a iTerm

If you want it to work with non-executable files, set an application like this as the default application for .sh files: