Even better (the silence principle): #!/bin/sh imagesnap -q -w 3 "~/.gitshots/$(date).jpg" (date(1) with spaces will be fine due to the double quotes,

Even better (the silence principle): #!/bin/sh imagesnap -q -w 3 "~/.gitshots/$(date).jpg" (date(1) with spaces will be fine due to the double quotes, although it won't be in date order when sorted by name, which would annoy me...)