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		stavros 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running o... Hm, very interesting! This only converts asciinema recordings, though, right? It doesn't automatically record anything?

sestep 4 months ago [–]

If you have asciinema already installed then you can invoke it through svg-term like this!

  svg-term --command 'cowsay hey there'

But that has the aforementioned issues about not pausing enough, so I usually just record with asciinema first and then invoke svg-term.

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