How to Take Screenshot On Mac Using Terminal Commands

The terminal allows to capture screenshots after a specific time interval and you can also save a screenshot in some other file formats like JPG, TIFF, etc otherwise by default Mac saves screenshots in PNG format.

How to Take Screen Shot Via Terminal On Mac

Follow the method written below to take a screenshot on Mac by using a command on the terminal.

1. Click on Finder
   
2. Go to Applications > Utilities and then launch Terminal
   
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
4. To know further details about screencapture command type the following command in the terminal and hit Enter
   screencapture --help
   
   As you can see above in the screenshot, there are different options that you can use with the command and perform different tasks. You can use -c to send captured screenshots to the clipboard or use -C to capture the screenshot including the cursor in it. There are lots of options just read and try it.