# Blog: Tonight’s Movie: The Terminal (of your laptop)

**URL:** <https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/blog-tonight-s-movie-the-terminal-of-your-laptop/221>\
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**Tags:** blog\
**Created:** [November 6, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/blog-tonight-s-movie-the-terminal-of-your-laptop/221 "2024-11-06T20:35:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![popey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/anchorecommunity.discourse.group/popey/32/429_2.png) [@popey](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/u/popey)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/blog-tonight-s-movie-the-terminal-of-your-laptop/221/1 "2024-11-06T20:35:21Z")

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Discussion thread for the following blog post:

> **[Tonight’s Movie: The Terminal (of your laptop)](https://anchore.com/blog/tonights-movie-the-terminal-of-your-laptop/)**
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> Capturing terminal output for demos is a great way to show off command-line tool capabilities. I took a look at three leading tools to achieve terminal recording nirvana.

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**Author:** ![evilnick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/anchorecommunity.discourse.group/evilnick/32/198_2.png) [@evilnick](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/u/evilnick)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/blog-tonight-s-movie-the-terminal-of-your-laptop/221/2 "2024-11-08T15:01:04Z")

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I think asciinema is often used in documentation (rather than slide decks etc) because the output can be copied and pasted. And read by some screenreaders, as it effectively is a terminal output emulation.

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**Author:** ![popey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/anchorecommunity.discourse.group/popey/32/429_2.png) [@popey](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/u/popey)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/blog-tonight-s-movie-the-terminal-of-your-laptop/221/3 "2024-11-08T15:56:52Z")

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Hey @evilnick - welcome!

Good point. I completely missed that. The fact that the text is animated, and whizzing by, makes me internally think it’s not copyable 😃

Today I learned.