Capture and View screenshot on macOS remotely

First, wake up the desktop with caffeinate.

caffeinate -u -t 2 # assert that the user is active

Then switch to the application you want to have focus on the desktop with open

open -a Google\ Chrome

Then call MacOS's screencapture command.

sudo screencapture /Users/dev/Desktop/FullScreen.png

Finally, if you are daring, using iTerm2, have downloaded imgcat from the iTerm imgcat site, have chmod +x that file, and have copied that file to /usr/local/bin, then view the captured image in your terminal with imgcat.

imgcat /Users/dev/Desktop/FullScreen.png

Tweet