A Picocom Wrapper
My favorite serial port program is picocom
because it's simple and
runs right in my existing terminal emulator (no PuTTY or other GUI
terminal emulator funkiness).
When I first started using it a few years ago, I kept forgetting how to exit it, so I wrote this wrapper to remind myself in the terminal's title bar.
#!/bin/sh # picocom.sh: Start picocom and remind the user how to exit. # Copyright (C) 2021, Remington Furman # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, # are permitted in any medium without royalty, provided the copyright # notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, # without any warranty. DEVICE=${1:-/dev/ttyUSB0} BAUD=${2:-115200} TITLE () { echo "\033]0;${1}\007" } # Set window title echo -ne "$(TITLE "picocom $DEVICE -- C-a C-x to exit")" /usr/bin/picocom -b "$BAUD" "$DEVICE"