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In open-source circles there are many situations, such as bug reports, demos, and tutorials, when one might want to provide a play-by-play of a session in one's terminal. The asciinema project provides a set of tools to do just that. Its tools let users record, edit, and share terminal sessions in a text-based format that has quite a few advantages compared to making and sharing videos of terminal sessions. For example, it is easy to use, offers the ability to search text from recorded sessions, and allows users to copy and paste directly from the recording.

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[–] ATPA9@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought this was about watching movies in the cli...

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Oh damn I always assumed it was just video