secrets of the software conference pros
Have you ever been at a development conference and been struck by the developers command of the command line. Not to say that they are all snake oil and high equity mortgage salesman but most of them use a bit of *nix illusion.
The trick to pulling this of is to record your bash session with something like the script or ttyrec commands. If your on debian or ubuntu you likely still have scriptreplay available to you.
record your session
script -t 2> tutorial.timing -a tutorial.session
execute what you you want to show off
exit the session
replay
scriptreplay tutorial.timing tutorial.session
if your not on debian you need to build ttyrec
git clone git@github.com:mjording/ttyrec.git
cd ttyrec
make
If you don’t have the directory setup (from macports or another unix add on)
/usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown root:wheel /usr/local /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod 0755 /usr/local /usr/local/bin
Otherwise copy the binary in and make some shortcuts
copy ttyrec, ttyplay and ttytime to /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/sudo /bin/cp -i ~/Desktop/ttyrec-1.0.8/ttyrec /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/sudo /bin/cp -i ~/Desktop/ttyrec-1.0.8/ttyplay /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/sudo /bin/cp -i ~/Desktop/ttyrec-1.0.8/ttytime /usr/local/bin
Now you can record your session to a file via
ttyrec -a tutorial.session
and play it back with
ttyplay tutorial.session
ttyrec also has advanced features that allow you to adjust playback speed.
