screencapture

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