Oraide A tool to spare presenters the risky proposition of entering terminal commands and giving a presentatio...
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A tool to spare presenters the risky proposition of entering terminal commands and giving a presentation at the same time Oraide is an utility to spare presenters the risky proposition of entering terminal commands and giving a presentation at the same time. Oraide replays presentation scripts composed of notes and terminal commands into a GNU Screen session. In addition to presentations, it's also useful for recording screencasts.The name Oraide is a portmanteau of orate and aide.UsageBefore giving your presentation, prepare a script file. A script file looks like this:# connect to the remote serverssh host-name# create a new fileecho 'Hello, World!' >> hello_world.txt# Read the file.# And by that I mean cat it.cat hello_world.txt# Background activity1: ssh host-name1: rm hello_world.txtScript files are interpreted by these rules:- Blank lines are ignored.- Lines starting with a hash are presenters notes. They're not executed.- All other lines are commands to be sent to the Screen session. If such a line starts with a number and a colon, the command is sent to the Screen window of the name number. Otherwise, the command is sent to window 0.Once you have a script ready, you can run Oraide. Running Oraide requires a script and a Screen session as command line arguments. Thus, run Oraide like To run the script against a specific Screen session like so: oraide script session, where script and session are the name of the Oraide script and Screen sessions respectively. For example, to run a script named conference on a Screen session named demo, enter oraide conference demo.So, a complete example would look something like this:screen -S demo# put that screen session on the projector# open a new terminal session on your laptop displayoraide my_great_presentation demoStarting my_great_presentation. Press ENTER to advance script. Requirements: · Python

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