BEYOND LS - Episode 01 - Recording terminal sessions using asciinema

Episode 01 of beyond ls, is dedicated to a command line tool called asciinema that allows you to record and replay terminal sessions.

Official website: https://asciinema.org
Get Started guide: https://docs.asciinema.org/getting-st...
agg (asciinema gif generator): https://github.com/asciinema/agg
bat command: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

The demo recording: https://asciinema.org/a/LKGQKMeiFkdTD...

Example usage of an asciinema gif: https://github.com/ASSERT-KTH/depclean
(See: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ASS...)

How to install agg:
Install Rust Compiler and Cargo Package Manager
Run: cargo install --git https://github.com/asciinema/agg

Command Line Reference:

asciinema rec file.cast: start recording a terminal session and save in file called file.cast

asciinema play file.cast: replay back a recorded terminal session

asciinema upload file.cast: upload a recorded terminal session to asciinema.org

agg file.cast output.gif: convert a .cast file to an animated gif

brew list: shows you all the packages you've installed with Homebrew

brew list | grep ascii: show all the installed packages and pipe that list to grep to show only lines that contain the word ascii

which command: shows you where command lives in your disk drive

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