7/12/2023 0 Comments Teampaper snap windowsThe list of flags starts with a dash because flags in the Terminal are always preceded by a dash. The gibberish inside of the square brackets is all of the possible flags you might want to apply to this command. With command-line utilities, you type the name of a command and then you add flags to specify how you want the command to work. Well that’s really clear, right? Fun with Flags Synopsis of `screencapture` Command It’s called the synopsis and it says screencapture file. At the top, you’ll see the name of the utility and a description that’s pretty obvious. So let’s type man screencapture into the Terminal. Luckily, screencapture is the exception to the rule. Occasionally I get lucky and can suss out a setting here and there but often I don’t have the slightest idea what the manual is trying to tell me. As a general rule, in my many years of messing around in the Terminal, I find the man pages for most Terminal commands to be nearly unintelligible gibberish. In the Terminal, you can get the manual for any command by typing man followed by the name of the command. The utility we’re going to use is called screencapture, lowercase, all one word. If you’ve not played in the Terminal before, it’s inside the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder. I don’t want you to be nervous about trying this because you literally can’t break anything with it, but to play along you have to open the Terminal app on your Mac. Brissette tipped me off to the existence of the command-line version, and Helma van der Linden reminded me about it and she had a play date with me to really dig into some of the options and to figured out a way to make it even more useful. I want to give two shoutouts before we start. This command has been around since Mac OSX 10.2! It turns out you can control screen capture on a Mac using the command line in the Terminal instead of the graphical user interface (aka GUI). I’m super excited about it though.Īs I mentioned, I already taught you everything I know about the unsung hero of the built-in screen capture utility within macOS. I have yet to determine whether this is going to be more or less efficient than using any of the other 28 ways I have of taking screenshots on my Macs. Whether it’s actually useful and a method even I’ll stick with is still an open question. This new method is definitely nerdy and yet not super hard nerdy. And yet, I’m hear to tell you about yet another way to take screenshots on macOS. I went through all of the articles on podfeet, and I’ve talked about macOS’s built-in screen capture, Loom, Capto, Monosnap, Teampaper Snap, Parallels Toolbox, Folge, and the now deprecated Clarify and Stepshot Guides. I think I need to find a support group for people who are addicted to screen capture utilities.
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