Toggle screenshot shadow on macOS

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Toggle screenshot shadow

This is a simple Bash script I made to toggle the screenshot shadow on Mac computers.

Requirements

Bash 2 or later macOS Mojave 10.14.0 or later

Usage

To toggle, just run the script. If it says access denied, run this command:

# You must be in the folder where you downloaded the .sh file
$ chmod +x toggleScreenshotShadow.sh
# Then run the file like this
$ ./toggleScreenshotShadow

Difference

_{^{Images from macOS defaults}}

With shadow:

Without shadow:

Notice how the image has scaled up? The image is scaled because the shadow taking up the pixels has been removed.

toggleScreenshotShadow.sh

#!/bin/bash

SHADOWVAL=`defaults read com.apple.screencapture "disable-shadow"`
if [ $SHADOWVAL = '0' ]; then
  defaults write com.apple.screencapture "disable-shadow" -bool "true"
	echo "Screenshot shadow is on"
else
  defaults write com.apple.screencapture "disable-shadow" -bool "false"
	echo "Screenshot shadow is off"
fi