Asciinema is a tool which allows you to record and share terminal sessions. In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of installing asciinema on macOS.
Before we begin, you will need to ensure that you have the following:
Here are the steps to install asciinema on your mac:
Open the terminal application on your mac.
Install brew if you don't have it installed by running the following command:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew installed, you can install asciinema with the following command:brew install asciinema
asciinema --help
This command should display help text in the terminal.
If you want to install asciinema from GitHub, you can follow the steps below:
a. Clone the asciinema repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-server.git
b. Navigate to the cloned directory by running the following command:
cd asciinema-server
c. Run the installation script by running the following command:
./install.sh
d. Verify that asciinema was installed successfully by running the following command:
asciinema --help
By following these steps, you should now have asciinema installed on your macOS machine. You can now use this tool to record and share your terminal sessions as you wish!
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