screencapture Command Examples

Utility to take screenshots and screen recordings. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/screencapture.1.html.

• Take a screenshot and save it to a file:

screencapture {{path/to/file.png}}

• Take a screenshot including the mouse cursor:

screencapture -C {{path/to/file.png}}

• Take a screenshot and open it in Preview, instead of saving:

screencapture -P

• Take a screenshot of a selected rectangular area:

screencapture -i {{path/to/file.png}}

• Take a screenshot after a delay:

screencapture -T {{seconds}} {{path/to/file.png}}

• Make a screen recording and save it to a file:

screencapture -v {{path/to/file.mp4}}