FBCAT(1)

💖 FBCAT(1) — the fbcat manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so. bestie. you wanna screenshot your framebuffer? say less. this is fbcat, and she's giving main character energy fr fr. welcome to the manual, we're doing this together 🫶✨

✨ NAME ✨

fbcat — takes a screenshot using the framebuffer device 🎀📸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fbcat [fbdev]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

fbcat takes a screenshot using the framebuffer device. that's the whole vibe. 📸

the produced image is in PPM format. iconic. no cap.

🚨 okay important bestie, listen: redirection of standard output to a file or another process is needed, because fbcat will refuse to write its output directly to the terminal. like she literally will not do it. so pipe it or redirect it, periodt. 💅

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• ppm(5) 🦋
• fbgrab(1) 🌸

and that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨ this was fbcat version 0.5.1, dated 2015-06-27, from the fbcat manual — mwah, love u, go screenshot something 🎀💖🦋🌈⭐👑