Take Screenshots From the Command Line
February 19th, 2008
There is a command for Terminal in OS X which allows you to take screenshots from the command line. Creepy creepy. Here is the format:
screencapture -x FileToSaveAs
The -x
option tells it not to make the shutter click sound. There is also an -i
option which triggers an interactive mode, although I’m not sure why you would use the Terminal to do that.
There is also a cute little tidbit in the man page for screencapture
:
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