Using Gifs for terminal explanations and usages aren’t new and exciting anymore but they are still useful. This is how to create them quickly on OSX. Install The tool we will use to capture our gif ttygif. brew install imagemagick ttyrec brew install https\://raw.githubusercontent.com/icholy/ttygif/master/ttygif.rb Gif The process of creating the gif is: Run ttyrec which records your terminal session as series of png files. Run ttygif to convert the png files to small gifs.
