Automates typing shell commands for a screencast
$ ./scripted-screencast test-script.sh output.ogv
Executables:
- Perl 5 v5.10 or higher
- recordmydesktop
Perl Modules:
- File::Slurp
- IO::Prompt
- Term::ANSIColor
scripted-screencast <test-script> <output-file> [recorder options]
You may append any options supported by recordmydesktop and they will be passed through. Note that by default the output file does not overwrite an existing file and a numbered variant name will be used instead.
When the program runs, you will be prompted to type "start" to begin. This gives the screen recorder time to launch in the background.
Once the screen is cleared, hit enter to see a scripted command "typed" on the screen. Hit enter again to run the command. Repeat until finished.
At the end of the script, hit enter on the blank prompt and you'll get a message about the recorder shutting down.
The prompt is hardcoded to my preferred prompt style. You'll probably want to fork this repo and customize it to match your prompt style.
Or, maybe someone will contribute a patch to run an external program to display the prompt and add a command line argument to use it. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge if you are so inclined).
This has only been tested on a recent Ubuntu on my laptop. YMMV.
Certain shell commands need to be intercepted ('cd' is already supported). There are probably others needing similar treatment, but I haven't needed them so I haven't implemented them.
The code in this repository is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the WTF Public Licence, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.