Command line for taking screenshots in Mac OS X. It even allows you to take DVD screenshot.
Open the Terminal and use the “screencapture” command.
The screencapture manual (man screencapture):
SCREENCAPTURE(1) BSD General Commands Manual SCREENCAPTURE(1)
NAME
screencapture — capture and manipulate clipboard contents
SYNOPSIS
screencapture [-SWcimswx] file
DESCRIPTION
The screencapture utility is not very well documented to date. A list of
options follows.
-S In window capture mode, capture the screen instead of the window.
-W Start interaction in window selection mode.
-c Force screen capture to go to the clipboard.
-i Capture screen interactively, by selection or window. The con-
trol key will cause the screen shot to go to the clipboard. The
space key will toggle between mouse selection and window selec-
tion modes. The escape key will cancel the interactive screen
shot.
-m Only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set.
-s Only allow mouse selection mode.
-w Only allow window selection mode.
-x Do not play sounds.
-C Capture the cursor as well as the screen. Only allowed in non-
interactive modes.
-t <format> Image format to create, default is png.
file where to save the screen capture
BUGS
Better documentation is needed for this utility.
HISTORY
A screencapture utility first appeared in Darwin 6.0.
Darwin June 16, 2004 Darwin
