doitlive is a tool for live presentations in the terminal. It reads a file of shell commands and replays the commands in a fake terminal session as you type random characters.
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macOS with Homebrew:
$ brew update
$ brew install doitliveWith pip:
$ pip install doitliveQuickstart
Create a file called session.sh. Fill it with bash commands.
Run doitlive play session.sh.
$ doitlive play session.shType like a madman.
More at https://doitlive.readthedocs.io
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Idea came from Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso’s “Revsets” talk at PyCon 2014.
Armin Ronacher’s click library made this quick to implement.
Themes inspired by Sorin Ionescu’s prezto zsh themes.
Hat tip to related projects HackerTyper and PlayerPiano
License
MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.
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