Asciinema a screen recording tool

How many times you would have come across situation where you wanted to share only recording of your terminal, but record entire screen and share.

Lets welcome asciinema tool that can record your sessions and can be shared, although you can use built in linux script to record session, for my home lab purposes I used asciinema to record and store them.

Installation on ubuntu/debian

sudo apt-get install asciinema

Recording sessions

For recording the sessions use:

asciinema rec REC1

To upload file to asciinema (remote):

root@eve-ng:~# asciinema rec REC1
asciinema: recording asciicast to REC1
asciinema: press <ctrl-d> or type "exit" when you're done
root@eve-ng:~# sudo apt-get install asciinema -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
asciinema is already the newest version (2.1.0-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@eve-ng:~# exit
exit
asciinema: recording finished
asciinema: asciicast saved to REC1

Upload the recording:

root@eve-ng:~# asciinema upload REC1
View the recording at:

    https://asciinema.org/a/aQZePhuBPE9VpI1cKKVkkx9Akp

I usually use .rec extension to know the files are from terminal recordings.