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I make a lot of presentations that involve many screenshots, and I want an easier way to organize them by project. I'm trying to write a simple function that changes the location where screenshots are saved to the current working directory.
I've written a function in and saved it to ~/.my_custom_commands.sh.
That file currently looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
# changes location of screenshot to current directory
function shoothere()
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '
killall SystemUIServer
echo 'foo'
When I navigate to the directory where I want to save my screenshots and run the function, it does print foo but screenshots do not appear anywhere.
I've also tried replacing '. ' with $1 and running it as $ shoothere ., at which point I get an error Rep argument is not a dictionary. Defaults have not been changed. Googling this error message has gotten me precisely nowhere.
I'm on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.4.
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I make a lot of presentations that involve many screenshots, and I want an easier way to organize them by project. I'm trying to write a simple function that changes the location where screenshots are saved to the current working directory.
I've written a function in and saved it to ~/.my_custom_commands.sh.
That file currently looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
# changes location of screenshot to current directory
function shoothere()
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '
killall SystemUIServer
echo 'foo'
When I navigate to the directory where I want to save my screenshots and run the function, it does print foo but screenshots do not appear anywhere.
I've also tried replacing '. ' with $1 and running it as $ shoothere ., at which point I get an error Rep argument is not a dictionary. Defaults have not been changed. Googling this error message has gotten me precisely nowhere.
I'm on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.4.
osx function bash-functions
edited Apr 12 at 19:02
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I make a lot of presentations that involve many screenshots, and I want an easier way to organize them by project. I'm trying to write a simple function that changes the location where screenshots are saved to the current working directory.
I've written a function in and saved it to ~/.my_custom_commands.sh.
That file currently looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
# changes location of screenshot to current directory
function shoothere()
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '
killall SystemUIServer
echo 'foo'
When I navigate to the directory where I want to save my screenshots and run the function, it does print foo but screenshots do not appear anywhere.
I've also tried replacing '. ' with $1 and running it as $ shoothere ., at which point I get an error Rep argument is not a dictionary. Defaults have not been changed. Googling this error message has gotten me precisely nowhere.
I'm on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.4.
osx function bash-functions
edited Apr 12 at 19:02
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asked Apr 12 at 18:29
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I make a lot of presentations that involve many screenshots, and I want an easier way to organize them by project. I'm trying to write a simple function that changes the location where screenshots are saved to the current working directory.
I've written a function in and saved it to ~/.my_custom_commands.sh.
That file currently looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
# changes location of screenshot to current directory
function shoothere()
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '
killall SystemUIServer
echo 'foo'
When I navigate to the directory where I want to save my screenshots and run the function, it does print foo but screenshots do not appear anywhere.
I've also tried replacing '. ' with $1 and running it as $ shoothere ., at which point I get an error Rep argument is not a dictionary. Defaults have not been changed. Googling this error message has gotten me precisely nowhere.
I'm on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.4.
osx function bash-functions
osx function bash-functions
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This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:
~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"
~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
"last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";
location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";
To reset it back to default, you can use this:
$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location
killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.
answered Apr 12 at 18:38
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yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
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This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:
~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"
~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
"last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";
location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";
To reset it back to default, you can use this:
$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location
killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.
answered Apr 12 at 18:38
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
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yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
– condenastee
Apr 12 at 18:45
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This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:
~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"
~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
"last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";
location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";
To reset it back to default, you can use this:
$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location
killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.
answered Apr 12 at 18:38
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
47.2k56191
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yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
– condenastee
Apr 12 at 18:45
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This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:
~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"
~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
"last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";
location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";
To reset it back to default, you can use this:
$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location
killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.
answered Apr 12 at 18:38
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
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This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:
~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"
~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
"last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";
location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";
To reset it back to default, you can use this:
$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location
killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.
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yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
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yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
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yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
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