Fun and useful utilities
We’ve learned the essentials of using the command line to work with files and directories, control processes, and gather information about your system. But the command line isn’t all business. You can have some fun while streamlining the way you work.
asciinema and asciinema-agg
asciinema is a fun tool for creating animated recordings of your terminal session. It will record each keystroke and any output generated in the terminal until you press Ctrl + D to stop recording. The animated replay can be easily posted online, but I think it’s even more useful to convert the animated results to an animated GIF with asciinema-agg. Both of these apps are available in the Snap Store and are easily installed, as demonstrated in the following code. You can see what the output looks like here:
ken@monster:~$ sudo snap install --classic asciinema
asciinema 2.2.0 from asciinema installed
ken@monster:~$ snap install asciinema-agg
asciinema...
