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TERMREC(1) termrec TERMREC(1)

NAME

termrec - a tty recorder

SYNOPSIS

termrec [-f format] [-e command] [outfile]

DESCRIPTION

Termrec is a tty recorder; it can record the output of any text mode program which you can then replay with termplay, ttyplay, ipbt, ttyplayer, nh-recorder, asciinema or similar.

If outfile ends in .gz, .xz, .bz2 or .zst, the data will be appropriately compressed.

If no outfile is given, termrec will produce a name like 2008-11-27.13-02-42.ttyrec.bz2

You can write directly to some remote URLs, such as tcp://host:port but that's usually of little use.

Options:

-f format, --format
You can specify a format other than ttyrec. Those available are:
ansi
No timing data. This is same as the output of script(1).
ttyrec
Compatible with ttyrec by Satoru Takabayashi.
nh-recorder
Compatible with nh-recorder by Helge Dennhardt.
asciicast
Compatible with asciinema by Marcin Kulik; format v2.
asciicast-v1
Likewise, format v1.
-e command, --exec
Runs a command instead of spawning a shell and records its output.
-r, --raw
Inhibits noting info about your terminal size and UTFness. This data is usually a good thing, but can confuse some programs. Also note that none of the formats provides a way to mark which exactly charset you use -- only if it's UTF-8 or one of ancient ones.
-a, --append
If the output file exists, it will be appended instead being overwritten.
-h, --help
Shows a short explanation of parameters.

ENVIRONMENT

SHELL
Unless -e is given, this will be the shell spawned, falling back to /bin/sh if not set. On Windows, COMSPEC is used instead.

SEE ALSO

termplay(1), termtime(1), termcat(1).
2018-09-30 UNKNOWN