"Command Line Here" in Finder

In Windows Explorer, I can right click a folder and click "Command Line Here" to launch the command prompt at that path. Is this doable in Leopard? Thanks.

I see your point. Thanks. I use the command prompt and the "command line here" pretty often in Windows, having grown up with DOS, and was just hoping to find the same thing. If such an option is not readily available, I'll just use Thomas' workaround. We can't ask for everything right?
BTW, I am still looking for a keyboard shortcut to lock my screen without putting the Mac to sleep. In Windows, I just hit Windows-L key combination (to switch users). I know that in Mac I can click on Lock Key Chain or Switch Users on that bar at the top of the screen, but I can't find the keyboard shortcuts for that (without writing some script or hack that is). I would like to avoid having to use the mouse. Furthermore, the hot corners (for screensavers) somehow don't work when I move the mouse pointer there so hot corners is not an option. But really, there is no keyboard shortcut for locking the screen? I've searched everywhere but can't find it.
After, Vista's dissappointing performance, I am looking for an alternative OS and really liking Leopard so far. Any help to ease my transition would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.

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XSQL DTD, XSQL command line, XSL parameters

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Perfect, and now I understand how `pacman -Qo` is working: it sends the answer to stdout if it knows the answer and to stderr if it doesn't find a hit. Thanks!

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a Mac user wrote:
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