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Call Up another system and act as a dial-in/serial terminal or perform file transfers with no error checking. See also: `picocom`, `minicom`, `tio`.

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Options (4)

-l, --lineboolean

Open a given serial port

Example: sudo cu {{[-l|--line]}} {{/dev/ttyXYZ}}
-s, --speedboolean

Open a given serial port with a given baud rate

Example: sudo cu {{[-l|--line]}} {{/dev/ttyXYZ}} {{[-s|--speed]}} {{115200}}
-h, --halfduplexboolean

Open a given serial port with a given baud rate and echo characters locally (half-duplex mode)

Example: sudo cu {{[-l|--line]}} {{/dev/ttyXYZ}} {{[-s|--speed]}} {{115200}} {{[-h|--halfduplex]}}
-f, --nortsctsboolean

Open a given serial port with a given baud rate, parity, and no hardware or software flow control

Example: sudo cu {{[-l|--line]}} {{/dev/ttyXYZ}} {{[-s|--speed]}} {{115200}} --parity={{even|odd|none}} {{[-f|--nortscts]}} --nostop

Examples (6)

Open a given serial port

sudo cu [-l|--line] /dev/ttyXYZ

Open a given serial port with a given baud rate

sudo cu [-l|--line] /dev/ttyXYZ [-s|--speed] 115200

Open a given serial port with a given baud rate and echo characters locally (half-duplex mode)

sudo cu [-l|--line] /dev/ttyXYZ [-s|--speed] 115200 [-h|--halfduplex]

Open a given serial port with a given baud rate, parity, and no hardware or software flow control

sudo cu [-l|--line] /dev/ttyXYZ [-s|--speed] 115200 --parity=even|odd|none [-f|--nortscts] --nostop

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