xdotool script to perform mouse moves and clicks

I'm new to xdotool and I have a bash script to do some automated clicks for me, but the clicks don't seem to be occurring. I think it's because I'm not selecting the window, though I'm not very confident about that assessment.

Here's what I have so far:

#!/bin/bash
for x in $(seq 1760 45 1895)
do for y in $(seq 760 45 985) do xdotool mousemove x y click 3 sleep 0.1 xdotool mousemove x y+20 click 1 sleep 0.1 done
done

1 Answer

Most importantly, a variable is called using $, and y+20 doesn't work that way. However, you don't even need to calculate that, just use mousemove_relative 0 20:

#!/bin/bash
for x in {1760..1895..45}; do for y in {760..985..45}; do xdotool mousemove --sync $x $y click 3 sleep 0.1 \ mousemove_relative --sync 0 20 click 1 sleep 0.1 done
done

Additional changes I made:

• substitute the seq subshell using Brace Expansion
• use xdotool's builtin sleep function → only call it once
• call mousemove with the --sync option to let it wait until the mouse is actually moved