Saving colorized output from Bash #

even from programs like testdisk, in which output may span many separate screens:

Text-based output:

Install aha: $ sudo apt install aha
$ sudo testdisk | tee >(aha --black>output.html)
After quiting testdisk, type exit on the command line. Find output.html in the current directory.

Graphic-based output:

$ sudo apt install imagemagick ttyrec gcc x11-apps
$ git clone https://github.com/icholy/ttygif.git
$ cd ttygif
$ make && sudo make install
$ ttyrec
Run desired command(s), e.g., $ sudo testdisk
Type exit when finished
Convert ttyrec's output file (ttyrecord by default) to tty.gif in the current directory: $ ttygif ttyrecord

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/nix | Mar 05, 2017