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Commands tagged serial

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screen /dev/tty<device> 9600
2010-07-20 09:12:13
User: px
Functions: screen
Tags: screen terminal serial console emulator terminal emulator,
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use screen as a terminal emulator to connect to serial consoles

Use GNU/screen as a terminal emulator for anything serial console related.

screen /dev/tty

eg.

screen /dev/ttyS0 9600

MacOSX: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061109133825654

Cheat Sheet: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/screen-terminal-emulator-cheat-sheet/

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sed -i 's/20[0-1][0-9]\{7\}/'`date +%Y%m%d%I`'/g' *.db
2010-03-24 07:28:58
User: alf
Functions: sed
Tags: Linux sed serial date dns cpanel
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Update zone file Serial numbers

Will edit *.db files in the same directory with todays date. Useful for doing a mass update to domains on a nameserver, adding spf records, etc.

Looks for a string starting with 200 or 201 followed by 7 numbers, and replaces with todays date. This won't overwrite Ip's but i would still do some double checking after running this.

Make sure your server's date is correct, otherwise insert your own serial number.

rndc reload

should usually follow this command.

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sudo mknod /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68
2009-09-05 09:12:44
User: 0disse0
Functions: c++ mknod sudo
Tags: serial mknod tty
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Add another tty device using mknod command

When you need to add another tty device that can automatically start at boot time

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stty -F "/dev/ttyUSB0" 9600 ignbrk -brkint -icrnl -imaxbel -opost -onlcr -isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke time 5 min 1 line 0
2009-03-20 14:48:32
User: Alanceil
Functions: stty time
Tags: device serial stty read write
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Configure a serial line device so you can evaluate it with a shell script

I had a hard time in finding the correct settings to get reasonable output from a coin selector which sends its data over a serial line. In the end, minicom came to the rescue and pointed me on the right track.

So, if you need to do something similar, these settings may help you.

Replace ttyUSB0 with your device file, 9600 with your baud rate, 5 with your read timeout (10ths of a second), and 1 with the minimum numbers of characters you want to read.

You can then open the device file like you are used to do, example:

DATA="`xxd -ps -l 5 \"$DEV\"`"
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