I am using I3WM and I found a solution to copy screenshots to a clipboard using the command below.

import png:- | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png

I want to bind this to a key in I3WM but I think the pipe is giving me trouble. I have this line in my i3/config file but nothing happens when I press the keybinding after refreshing I3WM.

bindsym Print exec import png:- | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png

Another route I tried was putting the above in a bash script and then bind that to the Print key with this line.

bindsym Print exec --no-startup-id ./.script/ScreenshotArea.sh

But I had no luck with that working. I assume it has something to do with the pipe in the command which I have to admit, I only understand that it works kinda like a while loop, but beyond that I have no clue what it's doing in this situation.

#!/bin/bash
import png:- | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png

Any suggestions?