Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Second Edition

Recording and playing back of terminal sessions

When you need to show somebody how to do something in the terminal, or you need to prepare a tutorial on how to do something through the command line, you would normally type the commands manually and show them. Or, you could record a screencast and playback the video to them. There are other options for doing this. Using the commands script and scriptreplay, we can record the order and timing of the commands and save the data to text files. Using these files, others can replay and see the output of the commands on the terminal until the playback is complete.

Getting ready

The script and scriptreplay commands are available in most of the GNU/Linux distributions. Recording the terminal sessions to ...