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allow specifying directory to save into #4

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fawaf opened this issue Aug 21, 2017 · 5 comments
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allow specifying directory to save into #4

fawaf opened this issue Aug 21, 2017 · 5 comments

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@fawaf
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fawaf commented Aug 21, 2017 •
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i.e. allow option to specify what directory to save into.
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mro commented Sep 6, 2017

try -e or e.g.

$  scrot "$HOME/Pictures/shot-%Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S.png"

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fawaf commented Sep 6, 2017

sorry, i mean to say allow just specifying the directory and let scrot still handle the filename.

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mro commented Sep 7, 2017

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=scrot+directory

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fawaf commented Sep 7, 2017

sure, but that is running an external command. would be great if scrot supported that natively.

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mro commented Sep 8, 2017

no, IMO it wouldn't. It's perfectly fine however for one cmdline tool to leverage another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_Do_It_Well

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