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sshot

sshot is a simple script to make a screenshot!

#!/bin/sh

select=
clip=

Did you know that getopts is a built-in? The first version of this script used getopt, but it was ugly and required some shell features which I'm not sure are POSIX. getopts is easier to handle:

while getopts cs name; do
	case $name in
	c)	clip=1 ;;
	s)	select=1 ;;
	?)	echo "Usage: $0 [-cs]" >&2; exit 1 ;;
	esac
done

The usage is simple, it just accepts a -c flag to copy the image in the clipboard and a -s flag to select a window instead of grabbing the whole screen.

The image is saved as /tmp/YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.png

file=/tmp/`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.png

if [ -n "$select" ]; then
	maim -su > "$file"
else
	maim -u > "$file"
fi

During the "select" maim aborts if a key is pressed; this however leaves a zero-byte file around, something I don't really like, so remove it in case

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
	rm "$file"
	notify-send "sshot: aborted"
	exit 1
fi

Optionally save the image in the clipboard: (not the path, the whole image!)

if [ -n "$clip" ]; then
	xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i "$file"
fi

Then send a notification to give a feedback of the success

notify-send "sshot: done" "$file"