How To Set Timer To Take Screenshot On Mac Using Terminal

If you want to take screenshots of any movie or application with a specific time interval on Mac OS X then manually it is a little bit difficult task to manage. So, here we are writing a simple method which let you allow to take unlimited screenshots automatically and you may also set time interval between the screenshots according to your requirement.

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How To Set Timer To Take Screenshot On Mac Via Terminal

Step 1

Go to Finder

Navigate to Applications > Utilities and launch Terminal

Step 2

Type the following command in Terminal and hit Enter

while [ 1 ];do vardate=$(date +%d\-%m\-%Y\_%H.%M.%S); screencapture -t jpg -x ~/Desktop/TrickyWays/$vardate.jpg; sleep 10; done

where:
vardate = used to give the names to screenshots which will be the system date & time.
jpg = the format of screenshots.
Desktop/TrickyWays = folder to save screenshot.
sleep = time interval between screenshots.
done = ends the while loop.

Press Ctrl+C to stop this loop

Or use the following command

i=1;while [ 1 ];do screencapture -t jpg -x ~/Desktop/TrickyWays/$i.jpg; let i++;sleep 6; done

where:
i = variable which is used to give the names to screenshots
jpg = the format of screenshots
Desktop/TrickyWays is folder to save screenshot
sleep = time interval between screenshots
done = ends the while loop

Press Ctrl+C to stop this loop

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