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SCREENCAPTURE(1)	     General Commands Manual		SCREENCAPTURE(1)

NAME
     screencapture  -- capture images from the screen and save them to a file or
     the clipboard

SYNOPSIS
     screencapture [-SWCTMPcimswxto] file

DESCRIPTION
     The screencapture utility is not very well documented to date.  A	list  of
     options follows.

     -c      Force screen capture to go to the clipboard.

     -b      Capture Touch Bar, only works in non-interactive modes.

     -C      Capture  the cursor as well as the screen.  Only allowed in non-in-
	     teractive modes.

     -d      Display errors to the user graphically.

     -i      Capture screen interactively, by selection or window.  The  control
	     key  will	cause  the screenshot to go to the clipboard.  The space
	     key will toggle between mouse selection and window selection modes.
	     The escape key will cancel the interactive screenshot.

     -m      Only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set.

     -D      <display> Screen capture or record from the display specified. 1 is
	     main, 2 secondary, etc

     -o      In window capture mode, do not capture the shadow of the window.

     -p      Screen capture will use the default settings for capture. The files
	     argument will be ignored.

     -M      Open the taken picture in a new Mail message.

     -P      Open the taken picture in a Preview window or QuickTime  Player  if
	     video.

     -I      Open the taken picture in Messages.

     -B      <bundleid> Open in the app matching bundleid.

     -s      Only allow mouse selection mode.

     -S      In window capture mode, capture the screen instead of the window.

     -J      <style>  Sets  the  starting  style of interfactive capture "selec-
	     tion","window","video".

     -t      <format> Image format to create, default is png (other options  in-
	     clude pdf, jpg, tiff and other formats).

     -T      <seconds>	Take  the picture after a delay of <seconds>, default is
	     5.

     -w      Only allow window selection mode.

     -W      Start interaction in window selection mode.

     -x      Do not play sounds.

     -a      Do not capture attached windows.

     -r      Do not add screen dpi meta data to captured file.

     -l      <windowid> Captures the window with windowid.

     -R      <rectangle> Capture rectangle using format x,y,width,height.

     -v      Capture video recording of the screen.

     -V      <seconds> Capture video recording of the screen for  the  specified
	     seconds.

     -G      <id>  Captures  audio  during  a video recording using audio source
	     specified by id.

     -g      Captures audio during a video recording using default input.

     -k      Show clicks in video recordings.

     -U      Show interactive toolbar in interactive mode.

     -u      Present UI after screencapture is complete. Files passed to comman-
	     dline will be ignored.

     files   where to save the screen capture, 1 file per screen

BUGS
     Better documentation is needed for this utility.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
     To capture screen	content  while	logged	in  via  ssh,  you  must  launch
     screencapture in the same mach bootstrap hierarchy as loginwindow:

     PID=pid of loginwindow
     sudo launchctl bsexec $PID screencapture [options]

HISTORY
     A screencapture utility first appeared in Mac OS X v10.2.

Mac OS				  June 16, 2004 		SCREENCAPTURE(1)
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