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minicom:tldr:63880
minicom: Open a given serial port with a given baud rate.
$ sudo minicom --device ${-dev-ttyUSB0} --baudrate ${115200}
try on your machine
This command is using minicom
, a terminal emulation program, with superuser privileges (sudo
). It is used to connect to a device via a serial port.
Here is the breakdown of the command:
sudo
: It runs the command with administrator or superuser privileges.minicom
: The command used to start theminicom
program.--device ${-dev-ttyUSB0}
: This specifies the device to connect to. In this case, it is using the/dev/ttyUSB0
device for the serial port communication. The${-dev-ttyUSB0}
is typically a placeholder that should be replaced with the actual device path, but it seems to be written incorrectly. It should probably be--device /dev/ttyUSB0
.--baudrate ${115200}
: This sets the baud rate for the serial communication. The${115200}
is again likely a placeholder that should be replaced with the desired baud rate, such as--baudrate 115200
. Baud rate determines the speed of data transmission over the serial port.
So, in summary, the command is running minicom
as a superuser, specifying the device /dev/ttyUSB0
(serial port device) to communicate with, and setting the baud rate to 115200.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.