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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 1 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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nomilk ◴[27 Jun 23 14:09 UTC] No.36493025[source]▶
Surprised pngpaste isn't mentioned (in the article nor the comments).

If you take a screen shot (command + shift + 4) or partial screen shot (command + shift + control + 4) you can save it directly to an image file with:

pngpaste filename.png

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1. lkuty ◴[27 Jun 23 19:18 UTC] No.36497429[source]▶
I configured the screenshot to file to automatically save them to ~/Desktop/screenshots instead of ~/Desktop using the Screenshot app to avoid cluttering the desktop. See https://www.hellotech.com/guide/for/how-to-change-where-scre...