asciinema(1)

💅 asciinema — bestie's guide to the terminal recorder

okay so you found the asciinema(1) page, which lives in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages, and honestly? you're in for a treat ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

asciinema — Terminal session recorder, streamer, and player</p> 🎀

like, it records your terminal, streams your terminal, and plays it back. all three. main character energy fr.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

asciinema [-q|--quiet] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] <subcommands>

so you run asciinema, you can sprinkle in some flags, and then you tell it which subcommand you want. that's the whole vibe check 💅

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Terminal session recorder, streamer, and player</p> — yes that's the whole description, it's short and it ate 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -q, --quiet — shhh 🤫 suppresses all the diagnostic messages and progress indicators. only error messages will show up. so if something goes wrong you'll still know, but the chatter is gone. no cap, this is the "i just want the results" flag.
• -h, --help — prints help 💖 (and psst — it says to see a summary with -h, so the short one gives you the quick tour).
• -V, --version — prints the version 🏷️ because sometimes you just gotta know what you're working with.

👑 SUBCOMMANDS 👑

okay bestie this is the good part, each of these has its own whole man page:

• asciinema-record(1) — Record a terminal session 🎥
• asciinema-stream(1) — Stream a terminal session 📡
• asciinema-session(1) — Record and stream a terminal session 🎥📡 both at once, icon behaviour
• asciinema-play(1) — Play back a terminal session ▶️
• asciinema-upload(1) — Upload a recording to an asciinema server ☁️
• asciinema-auth(1) — Authenticate this CLI with an asciinema server account 🔐 log in, bestie
• asciinema-cat(1) — Concatenate multiple recordings 🧵 smush them together
• asciinema-convert(1) — Convert a recording to another format 🔄 glow-up for your file

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💜 VERSION 💜

v3.2.1 — that's the one, keep that in your notes 🍓

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Marcin Kulik <m@ku1ik.com> — the icon who made all this happen, give them your flowers 💐

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lowkey reminder: if you ever forget any of this, just pull up the man page again. it's always there for you 🫶

and that's a wrap, bestie 💖 this was asciinema version 3.2.1 (the source & version in the footer, alongside the asciinema(1) manual reference and its date stamp) — go record something iconic ✨🎀🦋