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screencapture — Utility to take screenshots and screen recordings. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-

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Problem

How to use the screencapture command: Utility to take screenshots and screen recordings. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/screencapture.1.html>.

Solution

screencapture — Utility to take screenshots and screen recordings. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/screencapture.1.html>.

Take a screenshot and save it to a file:

screencapture {{path/to/file.png}}

Take a screenshot including the mouse cursor:

screencapture -C {{path/to/file.png}}

Take a screenshot and open it in Preview, instead of saving:

screencapture -P

Take a screenshot of a selected rectangular area:

screencapture -i {{path/to/file.png}}

Take a screenshot after a delay:

screencapture -T {{seconds}} {{path/to/file.png}}

Make a screen recording and save it to a file:

screencapture -v {{path/to/file.mp4}}

Code Snippets

Take a screenshot and save it to a file

screencapture {{path/to/file.png}}

Take a screenshot including the mouse cursor

screencapture -C {{path/to/file.png}}

Take a screenshot and open it in Preview, instead of saving

screencapture -P

Take a screenshot of a selected rectangular area

screencapture -i {{path/to/file.png}}

Take a screenshot after a delay

screencapture -T {{seconds}} {{path/to/file.png}}

Context

tldr-pages: osx/screencapture

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