LinuxQuestions.org - grab - Simply a useless bash script to take a screen shot; Required command: import

It's my first bash script and felt I should share to someone, since my girlfriend does not seem to care at all about it. It's a usesless /bin/sh script to take a screen shot of your desktop and put the *.jpg in your home directory named grab-year,month & nanosecond. It supports the full screen or manually via drawing a box with your mouse. I only wrote this script to take screens faster, useless otherwise.

Create a file called "grab" insert this code into it:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# grab

# description:

# A simple program to take a quick screen shot

#

# Required: import (Part of the image magic library)

#

# By Micxz



mygrab=`which import | tr -d ''`



if [ $mygrab == '' ] ; then

echo ""

echo "I'm Sorry I can't find: /usr/bin/import "

echo "Open this script and change \$mygrab at the top."

echo ""

exit 0

fi



case "$1" in



-f)

  echo ""

  RANDTIME=`/bin/date +%Y%m%N | tr -d ' '`

  $mygrab -window root ~/grab-$RANDTIME.jpg

  echo "Full grab done. Look in ~/"

  echo ""

  ;;





-m)

  echo ""

  RANDTIME=`/bin/date +%Y%m%N | tr -d ' '`

  $mygrab ~/grab-manual-$RANDTIME.jpg

  echo "Manual grab done. Look in ~/"

  echo ""

  ;;





*)



  echo ""

  echo "  USAGE:  grab [command] "

  echo ""

  echo "  COMMANDS:"

  echo "        -f      Grab the entire X server screen."

  echo "        -m      Manually grab the screen with your mouse."

  echo "        -help    Displays this list of options."

  echo ""

  exit 1 ;;



esac

exit 0

chmod 755 grab

Done;