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Take a picture from terminal

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I want to be able to take a picture using the webcam from the terminal. This image then will be saved to a file. How can this be done?

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answered 1 Year ago byishted · Accepted Answer

If you're looking for something automated webcam is pretty decent. It has lots of lovely options for pushing the photos over the Internet.

If you want something more manual, and we're talking about a camera supported by V4L/UVC (most of them) you can use streamer to capture a frame from the device:

streamer -f jpeg -o image.jpeg