Showterm.io – A Terminal/Shell Recording, Upload and Share Tool for Linux

For recording Desktop screen there are a bunch of software’s available on the web, but have you ever thought about recording your Terminal? Well, it’s very much possible thanks to this nifty little program called Showterm.

Install Showterm.io in Linux

What is Showterm?

Showterm is an open source terminal record and upload application that lets you easy to record how-to in your terminal. It will record all your terminal activity in text-base and upload to showterm.io as a video and then generates a link for you to share with your team-mates or embed it in your website as an iframe. Here’s an example of Demo:

Installation of Showterm in Linux

You can install showterm tool using two different methods. The recommended way is to use ruby, if you’ve ruby correctly installed and configured on your system, then you can install it using gem command. If ruby doesn’t installed, you can install it using following commands.

On Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint

# sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems
# sudo gem install showterm

Sample Output

[sudo] password for tecmint: 
Fetching: showterm-0.5.0.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed showterm-0.5.0
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for showterm-0.5.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for showterm-0.5.0...

On RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

# yum install ruby rubygems
# gem install showterm

Sample Output

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed showterm-0.5.0
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for showterm-0.5.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for showterm-0.5.0...

If your system does not have ruby configured correctly, you can install showterm in your bin directory with the following commands.

$ curl showterm.io/showterm > ~/bin/showterm
$ chmod +x ~/bin/showterm

How to Use Showterm

The syntax to start recording is “showterm [program to run]“. If you omit the program to run and just type in “showterm“.

# showterm

It’ll start recording your shell. Once you are done recording, you can stop it by typing in either exit or “Ctrl­D“.

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