Stephen R Dennison <srd_at_seekerof.info> writes:
> I have this item in a menu:
> + "Screen Cap" Exec exec screencap 5
>
> I have the following in a file ~/bin/screencap:
> #!/bin/bash
> sleep $1
> import -window root ~/screencaps/`date +%a``ls ~/screencaps/|wc
> -l|bc`.jpeg
>
> The funny looking command creates a jpeg image in the screencaps
> directory of my home directory, the name of the file is the current day
> as a three letter abbreviation with the number of images in the folder
> tacked on to the end to prevent them from over writing eachother. For
> example, if I were to use the menu item on a sunday then I would have
> Sun0.jpeg in the screencaps directory after I took a screen shot.
>
> The 5 after the menu option makes the script sleep for 5 seconds before
> taking the scren cap.
Thats pretty nice, and usefule also for other tasks that comes to
my mind.
the bc at the end is just to make sure it's `only' a number, even
so <here> without it, it seems to work too?
thanks and greetings
marco candrian
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Received on Thu Feb 26 2004 - 00:03:12 GMT