Scrot: A Command Line Tool to Take Desktop/Server Screenshots Automatically in Linux | Linux Today

Scrot: A Command Line Tool to Take Desktop/Server Screenshots Automatically in Linux

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Ravi Saive
May 1, 2014

Scrot (SCReenshOT) is an open source, powerful and flexible, command line utility for taking screen shots of your Desktop or Server, Terminal or a Specific Window manually or automatically by Cron job.

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Ravi Saive

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