When recording asciinema starts new shell instance (as indicated by $SHELL environment variable) by default. It invokes exec $SHELL, which in most cases translates to exec /bin/bash or exec /bin/zsh. This means the shell runs as an “interactive shell”, but not as a “login shell”.
If you have functions and/or other shell configuration defined in either .bash_profile, .zprofile or .profile file they are not loaded unless the shell is started as a login shell.
Some terminal emulators do that (passing “-l” option to the shell command-line), some don’t. asciinema doesn’t.
Worry not, you have several options. You can:
- move this part of configuration to
.bashrc/.zshrc, - record with
asciinema rec -c "/bin/bash -l"or, - add the following setting to your
$HOME/.config/asciinema/configfile:
[record]
command = /bin/bash -l