Usage tip, especially for Mac OS X with custom, non-SHELL bash 4+

[joelpurra]

Update: using shell-keystroke-animator instead -- see examples below.

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I depend on a Bash 4+ shellscript in my $PS1, which crashed when using ttyrec. Bash 4+ is in my path, but not set as my $SHELL - on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, the default $SHELL is /bin/bash (v3.2.53).

In order to get ttyrec to work, I used SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash ttyrec myrecording.

sw_vers
# ProductName:  Mac OS X
# ProductVersion:   10.10.1
# BuildVersion: 14B25

echo "$SHELL"
# /bin/bash

/bin/bash --version
# GNU bash, version 3.2.53(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
# Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

which bash
# /usr/local/bin/bash

/usr/local/bin/bash --version
# GNU bash, version 4.3.33(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0)
# Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
# 
# This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
# There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

# Since `ttyrec` uses `getenv("SHELL")`, set SHELL for this execution:
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash ttyrec myrecording

Thanks!

[joelpurra]

Didn't have much luck using ttyrec in the end. Check out the new tool I created for recording my own project demos: shell-keystroke-animator
https://github.com/joelpurra/shell-keystroke-animator