Jun 18

Screen Capture in Terminal

I overheard someone at work saying “I wish there was a way to take a screenshot and then automatically add it to an email as an attachment.” so I decided to find a way to make it happen with applescript and terminal.

Terminal has a screen capture command, which should be easy to remember as it is called screencapture. To find more information on this command, type ‘man screencapture’ in terminal to read through the entire manual.

There are two three parts to this command, two of which are essential for the command to run properly.

Part 1 – The command ’screencapture’
Part 2 – Modifiers (optional)
Part 3 – Where you want the file to be placed Continue reading »