termrec mit Homebrew, apk, apt, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• termcat
• termplay
• termrec
• termtime

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository dates to April 2010, but the official project page presents termrec as part of the older ttyrec-style recording culture. Rather than capturing pixels, it records terminal output and timing so sessions can be replayed, converted, measured, or inspected.

Version 0.18 is documented as a substantial modernization point: the library API became stable, asciicast v1 and v2 support was added, zstd compression was added, CURL fetching appeared, proxyrec was dropped, and tty emulation gained improvements such as CJK width, combining characters, overstrike, 24-bit color, more ANSI codes, and window-title storage.

Adoptionsgeschichte

termrec is a smaller, specialist package. This batch input lists apk, Homebrew, Ubuntu's libtty-dev, and zypper's libtty-devel, which suggests it is packaged both as command-line utilities and as a library/API dependency in some distributions.

Wie es verwendet wird

The official page documents several tools: `termrec` records a shell or command, `termplay` replays recordings, `termtime` measures recording lengths, and `termcat` copies or converts ttyrec files. Older documentation also described `proxyrec`, a TELNET proxy used to capture network sessions.

The T2T proxy section shows a concrete historical niche: capturing MUD/TELNET play sessions for later export. That is a classic terminal-recording use case alongside demos, debugging, and sharing interactive command-line runs.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

termrec matters to package nerds because it connects old ttyrec artifacts with newer terminal-sharing formats such as asciicast, while preserving low-level terminal semantics. Its value is less broad popularity and more interoperability: conversion, playback, compression, and a stable library API for terminal recordings.

Zeitleiste

• 2010: Public GitHub repository created on April 20.
• Version 0.18: Stable library API and ABI declared.
• Version 0.18: asciicast v1/v2, zstd compression, CURL fetching, and improved tty emulation added.
• Version 0.18: proxyrec dropped from the current release line.

Related projects

• The official page names ttyrec, nh-recorder, and Joey Hess' script/replay as related predecessors. With asciicast support, termrec is also adjacent to the asciinema ecosystem.

Quellen

• GitHub repository metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/kilobyte/termrec
• Input source_facts.package-manager
• Official project page: https://angband.pl/termrec.html