I've tried googling around for this, but search results keep littering things like "screenshot save location" and other junk. I am running MacOS Monterery v12.6 (intel chip).
What I want is to launch the Screenshots.app from the terminal. I do not want to take a screenshot and auto-save it, I want the actual app to open so I can choose to screenshot a specific window, my whole desktop, or a specific square region. I can achieve this by searching "Screenshot.app" in spotlight search and launching from there, but I want to use a keybind to launch the app via skhd (because I'm a power user).
I was able to accomplish this with Firefox.app by using open -n /Applications/Firefox.app. I thought I could do the same with Screenshot.app, but I have come across something odd. In Finder, I can go to /Applications/Utilities/ folder and see Screenshot.app listed. I can even double click the icon and the app opens. However, in the terminal when I navigate to /Applications/Utilities the ls command shows nothing.
Furthermore:
% open -n /Applications/Utilities/Screenshot.app
The file /Applications/Utilities/Screenshot.app does not exist.
How can I launch the Screenshot.app application from the terminal? Where is it actually located? Why is finder showing me something different than my terminal?
open -a Screenshot(or Screenshot.app) not work?open -a firefoxbut the OP seems to have gone down an XY Problem route; asking for the answer to a presumed solution rather than asking for a solution to a given problem.open -a Screenshot, without the full path, which is nice and would have saved me a little confusion. But either way this would have been configured in skhd due to reasons mentioned. It's not an XY problem.