Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way.

Forget screen recording apps and blurry video.
Experience a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording.

asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh] is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.

Easy recording

Record right where you work - in a terminal. To start, run asciinema rec demo.cast, to end press ctrl+d or type exit.

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When viewing a recording just pause the player and copy-paste the content you want. It's just text after all!

Embedding

Easily embed asciinema player in your blog post, project documentation or in conference talk slides.

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/tmp/boot-t$n.log 2>&1; echo "== t$n $(grep -a "S4-RC" /tmp/boot-t$n.log)"; do /tmp/boot-t66.log /tmp/boot-t67.log /tmp/boot-t68.log | head -4' Output ⟦Backgrounded: bg_2 | Timeout: 320s⟧ waiting on 1 job bg_2 ⟦bash⟧ grep -n "linux/mm.h" arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c; scp -q … 1m Waiting for enriched probe runs ⟦esc⟧ bg_2 ⟦bash⟧ grep -n "linux/mm.h" arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c; scp -q … 1m Waiting for enriched probe runs ⟦esc⟧ π · ⬢ Ox Alpha Free (Unlimited) · ◒ high · 📁 ~/kernel-work/src/linux-mainline

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