There are various ways to create animated GIFs for terminal output. Three methods that can be used on Linux (in this case Ubuntu) are described below.
This is probably the easiest way. The disadvantage of this method is that when I tried to record an animation of a progress bar created with the Python Rich library, it didn't show up.
Asciinema can be be installed with pip install asciinema
A Python script to scan all accessible containers in a self-hosted Docker registry for the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-4228). It uses Trivy and python-dxf.
The script is compatible with Python 3.6+
# Upgrade pip and DXF
Terminalizer is tool for recording terminal sessions and turning them into animated gifs. It's a way to demonstrate command line tools or share workflows. Unfortunately, there are a few hoops to jump through to install it on Ubuntu. The issues seem to be with where the global npm installer tries to put the files and the permissions that they have.
asciinema and asciicast2gif produce simpler output but are easier to install.
Here are the steps that worked for me:
A simple, standalone frontend for database editing using Python. It is based on the following libraries:
| # Ansible playbook to set up minidlna server to serve video from USB drive plugged into router | |
| # Videos are on Samba share at //192.168.1.1/share | |
| --- | |
| - hosts: all | |
| become: yes | |
| tasks: | |
| - name: Install minidlna and cifs | |
| apt: | |
| name: [minidlna, cifs-utils] | |
| state: present |