Colored Zsh History – context of command

by zdharma 6 years ago

macOS ◆ xterm-256color ◆ bash 4427 views

You can see all occurrences of a command. View their context. Useful when it’s easy to find neighbour command, but not the needed command. Or when you want to recall a sequence of steps you once took.

Homepage: https://github.com/zdharma/history-search-multi-word

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You can download this recording in asciicast v1 format, as a .json file.

Download

Replay in terminal

You can replay the downloaded recording in your terminal using the asciinema play command:

asciinema play 155704.json

If you don't have asciinema CLI installed then see installation instructions.

Use with stand-alone player on your website

Download asciinema player from the releases page (you only need .js and .css file), then use it like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="asciinema-player.css" />
</head>
<body>
  <div id="player"></div>
  <script src="asciinema-player.min.js"></script>
  <script>
    AsciinemaPlayer.create(
      '/assets/155704.json',
      document.getElementById('player'),
      { cols: 100, rows: 20 }
    );
  </script>
</body>
</html>

See asciinema player quick-start guide for full usage instructions.

While this site doesn't offer GIF conversion at the moment, you can still do it yourself with the help of asciinema GIF generator utility - agg.

Once you have it installed run the following command to create GIF file:

agg https://asciinema.org/a/155704 155704.gif

Or, if you already downloaded the recording file:

agg 155704.json 155704.gif

Check agg --help for all available options. You can change font family and size, select color theme, adjust speed and more.

See agg manual for full usage instructions.