How to generate an image from a bash script: A tool called Asciiema allows developers to test their bash script in action while also recording the execution from their terminal. This is helpful because it validates that your script works. There were times when I assumed my documentation was accurate, however, when I tried the instructions using the tool, it failed. Thankfully, I got it fixed.

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26 days ago

Savvy CLI and Asciinema are both powerful tools that can record terminal activity, but they serve different purposes and are built with different core functionalities.

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about 1 month ago

I mention asciinema in my other comment[0], but there are a number of tools. The one to use depends on your system and the archwiki has a good list[1]. Assuming you’re not using Wayland, ffmpeg is probably going to work[2]. Gimp and ImageMagick also provide tools to help. [0] https://asciinema.org/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010530 [2] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop.

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2 months ago

You’re not alone. Even worse when it is a product page. Just how often I see soe product or project and are unable to actually determine what the thing does or why I would want to use it or even HOW to use it. I can give GitHub projects a pass when someone else links them, but the poster is the author so no pass. This is “Show HN”. Please __show__. I do like to try out new projects and tools, but where’s the hook?…

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2 months ago

I think it would be more reasonable to judge whether it is promotion according to its content, quality, purpose, instead of domain name. I totally agree one should get flagged if one posts the same product or application for the same use case again and again. But in my situation, they are different tools for different use cases. I don’t think this demo would get flagged if it was uploaded and presented in the…

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4 months ago

There are other fun “terminal capture tools” like https://asciinema.org/.

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4 months ago

Https://asciinema.org/ We use this for really nice terminal only demos. Highly recommend even though there are some minor rendering issues if you are using special fonts.

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5 months ago

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8 months ago

This might be a good usecase for https://asciinema.org/.

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10 months ago

I do quite a lot of this kind of stuff for my job. Some context that may be useful. Often the full IDE is needed. I record a lot of gifs of VSCode, where part of the gif is typing code, part is interacting with the rest of the IDE / terminal – perhaps to run the code and view the output. For me the killer app would be one which could pre-record keystrokes (and maybe mouse actions) so that I could do them error…

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11 months ago

But it seems pretty popular for this kind of screen recording. [1] https://asciinema.org/.

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over 1 year ago

> Is there something better than just screen-shotting your terminal window and making PNGs or GIFs for stuff like this? There is and it’s been on my TODO list forever. In fact, the article you just read (congrats on getting through my narrative devices) was written /while tackling that/. https://asciinema.org does it for “moving pictures”, it shouldn’t be too hard to do it for stills.

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over 1 year ago

This made me instantly think of https://asciinema.org. There are so.e amazing resources on that site.

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over 1 year ago

Seems like a self-hosted asciinema https://asciinema.org/.

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over 1 year ago

Recommendation: you barely used half of the line width available and the font is so small (in the representation) that it is not intelligible at a 240p resolution. So I recommend next time to use a crisp font with larger x-height. (I don’t know if e.g., asciinema is an option here on reddit.).

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over 1 year ago

Looks very similar to https://asciinema.org/.

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over 1 year ago

Https://asciinema.org/ can do this pretty well too.

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over 1 year ago

I’ve never had the need to use any of them, but I’ve always felt like https://asciinema.org/ has to be the end-game of these tools. If for no other reason than the fact that when playing it back you can pause and copy the text from the terminal.

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over 1 year ago

Asciinema to record the terminal and then agg to convert that to gif.

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over 1 year ago

Cd changes the directory—by default it goes to the home directory
(https://asciinema.org/ recording or screenshot).

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over 1 year ago

A nice little Makefile driving each day too: https://github.com/odnoletkov/advent-of-code-jq/blob/master/Makefile And I somehow just learned about asciicinema from it: https://asciinema.org.

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almost 2 years ago