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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# take a screenshot of a region selected by the cursor and copy it to the clipboard
# using maim and xclip
# accept all passed arguments and pass them to maim
maimflags="$@"
dir="$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/ss"
file="$dir/$(date +%s).png"
# create screenshot dir if it doesn't exist
[ -d $dir ] || mkdir -p $dir
# save screenshot to a file with a unique ordered timestamp
maim $maimflags $file
# copy the file to the clipboard
xclip -selection clipboard -target image/png $file