Help with terminal

[Big_Edd]

Hi,

I need the help of more skilled people than me,  I’m going to be siting a 10 hour photography exam in abut a month. Ill be doing it digitally, to prove that it is achy me I need screen shot of the process that I am using to create my work. I was wondering if it was possible to automate this using terminal. It would ideally include 

• The time the the screenshot was taken (preferably the name of the screenshot)
• A destination folder that can be changed 
• And an easy way to change the frequency of the screenshots 

I would be very appreciative if anyone could help me with this. I’m running OS X 10.11.3

[soup]

I must be reading this wrong or something.  A 10HOUR EXAM!. What about toileting, eating, eye strain etc?  Ten hours staring at a computer screen doesn't bear thinking about

[Bittenfleax]

Have a look at this: http://www.trickyways.com/2010/01/how-to-set-timer-to-take-screenshot-on-mac-using-terminal/

[Big_Edd]

6 hours ago, soup said:

I must be reading this wrong or something.  A 10HOUR EXAM!. What about toileting, eating, eye strain etc?  Ten hours staring at a computer screen doesn't bear thinking about

It split into two days and then again a couple more times in each day. The art exam is 12 hours so...

[KaasKop]

#!/bin/bash
#quick and dirty screenshooter
timeofSC="$(date +%d-%m-%y_%T)"

echo -e "Frequency of the screenshot in seconds(only numbers): "
read frequenctSC

echo -e "Directory to save them: "
read dir

while [ 1 ]
	do 
	screencapture -t jpg -xCr $dir/$timeofSC.jpg 
	sleep $frequenctSC
done

Made a bash script for you, to run it do:

1. save it as an .sh file "AwesomeScript.sh"

2. in terminal type "chmod +x AwesomeScript.sh" this allows it to execute the code

3. then do "./AwesomeScript.sh" answer it's questions.

4. ???

5. Profit.

 

NOTE: I am not on a mac so please verify if 'screencapture' works.