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Asciinema

Terminal session recorder.

Table of contents

1. TL;DR
2. Further readings
3. Sources

TL;DR

# Installation.
sudo apt-get install asciinema
brew install 'asciinema'
sudo dnf install 'asciinema'
sudo pacman -S 'asciinema'
python3 -m 'pip' install --user 'asciinema'

# Record sessions locally.
asciinema rec 'path/to/file.cast'
asciinema rec -i 2 'path/to/file.cast' --overwrite

# Record sessions and upload them to the website.
asciinema rec

# Play local sessions.
asciinema play 'path/to/file.cast'

# Share local recordings on the website.
asciinema upload 'path/to/file.cast'

Further readings

• Website
• Github
• agg to convert cast files into GIFs

Sources

All the references in the further readings section, plus the following: