We wrote before the method to take the screenshot on Mac through keyboard shortcut keys and today we are sharing an other method to take screenshot on Mac through terminal command.
Terminal allows to capture screenshot after a specific time interval and you can also save screenshot in some other file formats as JPG, TIFF etc otherwise by default Mac saves screenshot in PNG format.
Follow the method written below to take screenshot on Mac by using command on terminal.
See also:
How to capture screen shots on Mac with keyboard shortcut keys
How to Set a Folder to Save Screen Shots on Mac
How to Take Screen Shot Via Terminal On Mac
Step 1
Click on Finder
Step 2
Go to Applications > Utilities and then launch Terminal
Step 3
Type following command in Terminal
screencapture -T 6 ~/Desktop/screenshot.jpg
where: T 6 = time interval in seconds, Desktop = location to save screenshot and screenshot.jpg = filename with extension
By default time interval is set to 5 seconds
Step 4
To know further details about screencapture command type the following command in terminal and hit Enter
screencapture --help
It works great on mac i try that after reading your article
This is quite easy to take screenshot through command line on mac