GRABSERIAL

NAME

grabserial - Serial line reader

SYNOPSIS

grabserial

DESCRIPTION

Grabserial is a small program which reads a serial port and writes the data to standard output. The main purpose of this tool is to collect messages written to the serial console from a target board running Linux, and save the messages on a host machine.

USAGE

grabserial [options] <config_file>

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Print this message

-d, --device=<devpath>

Set the device to read (default ’/dev/ttyS0’)

-b, --baudrate=<val>

Set the baudrate (default 115200)

-w, --width=<val>

Set the data bit width (default 8)

-p, --parity=<val>

Set the parity (default N)

-s, --stopbits=<val>

Set the stopbits (default 1)

-x, --xonxoff

Enable software flow control (default off)

-r, --rtscts

Enable RTS/CTS flow control (default off)

-f, --force-reset

Force pyserial to reset device parameters

--endtime=<secs>

End the program after the specified seconds have elapsed.

--command=<cmd>

Send a command to the port before reading

-t, --time

Print time for each line received. The time is
when the first character of each line is
received by grabserial

--systime

Print system time for each line received. The time
is the absolute local time when the first character
of each line is received by grabserial

-m, --match=<pat>

Specify a regular expression pattern to match to
set a base time. Time values for lines after the
line matching the pattern will be relative to
this base time.

-i, --instantpat=<pat>

Specify a regular expression pattern to have its time
reported at end of run. Works mid-line.

-q, --quitpat=<pat>

Specify a regular expression pattern to end the
program. Works mid-line.

-l, --launchtime

Set base time from launch of program.

-o, --output=<name>

Output data to the named file.

-v, --verbose

Show verbose runtime messages

-V, --version

Show version number and exit

Example

grabserial -e 30 -t -m ˆLinux version.*

This will grab serial input for 30 seconds, displaying the time for each line, and re-setting the base time when the line starting with "Linux version" is seen.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).