#!/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