https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:50:36 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4203/exec-with-scrot-e-mv-feh-gives-an-error/I think this might be a problem with scrot, but I really have no idea :) I have the following bindings: ``` bindsym Print exec --no-startup-id scrot '%Y-%m-%d-%T.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Screenshots/' ``` ``` bindsym Shift+Print exec scrot '%Y-%m-%d-%T.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Screenshots/ ; feh ~/Screenshots/%Y-%m-%d-%T.png' ``` The first one works fine, but the one that should execute feh after taking the screenshot doesn't work as expected. I get the following error: ``` ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: <end>, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar' ERROR: Your command: exec scrot '%Y-%m-%d-%T.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Screenshots/ ; feh ~/Screenshots/%Y-%m-%d-%T.png' ERROR: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ```Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:38:27 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4203/exec-with-scrot-e-mv-feh-gives-an-error/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4203/exec-with-scrot-e-mv-feh-gives-an-error/?answer=4204#post-id-4204You need to quote the command since it contains a semicolon, which is used in i3 to separate commands: bindsym Shift+Print exec "scrot '%Y-%m-%d-%T.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Screenshots/ ; feh ~/Screenshots/%Y-%m-%d-%T.png'" Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:50:05 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4203/exec-with-scrot-e-mv-feh-gives-an-error/?answer=4204#post-id-4204https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4203/exec-with-scrot-e-mv-feh-gives-an-error/?comment=4206#comment-4206Of course! Thanks!Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:50:36 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4203/exec-with-scrot-e-mv-feh-gives-an-error/?comment=4206#comment-4206