You can capture screenshots from the command line using the screencapture command. Basically just typing screencapture followed by the path and name of the file to be created will result in a capture of the entire screen. You can also use -c to capture to the clipboard instead of to a file (or Command-Shift-3 if you’re in the GUI). By default screencapture does not get the mouse. You can add the mouse location and pointer to your screenshot using the -C option in your command. Because you have multiple monitors in many cases you may only want to capture a single monitor. You can specify that using the -m option.…
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Mac OS X: Changing the Default Screen Shot Format
In Mac OS X, the default format that screen shots are captured at are png files. These automagically arrive on the desktop when you are using Command-Shift-4 to capture screen shots. Not everyone uses the png format defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format