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When using scrot, I'd like to have the files appear in ~/Pictures/Screenshots/ instead of in my home directory.

scrot -e 'mv $f ~/Pictures/Screenshots/'

works OK, but I would love not to have to use the -e flag because I want to have the file output be in my screenshots folder every time. Can I make scrot always output in ~/Pictures/Screenshots/, so that

scrot

will just automagically dump the files in that directory?

Blue Ice
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Put this line in ~/.bash_aliases. You may need to close the terminal and reopen it for the new alias to function:

alias myscrot='scrot ~/Pictures/Screenshots/%b%d::%H%M%S.png'
  • This will create a file like May15::110346.png in ~/Pictures/Screenshots
  • You can use some other way of timestamping your screenshot but I like this. See man scrot and man date for more options.
  • I purposely used myscrot so that the original scrot is still functional but you can use just scrot if you wish!
DK Bose
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