TTYLOG(8)

💖 TTYLOG(8) — the ttylog girlie's guide 💖

okay so bestie, this is a section 8 manual page, and it's all about ttylog — your friendly neighborhood serial device logger. she sits there, she listens to your serial port, she writes it all down. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ttylog — serial device logger

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ttylog [-b|--baud] [-d|--device] [-f|--flush] [-t|--timeout] >
/path/to/logfile

so like, if you're not using the timeout option, you can stop her from running by pressing a ctrl-c when she's going to the screen, or by doing "kill -HUP nnnn" (where nnnn is the process ID for ttylog) if she's running in the background. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this program writes everything that comes from a serial device like /dev/ttyS1 onto stdout. that's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨

and the best part? you can specify the device and the baud rate of the device. main character energy fr fr. 👑

💜 OPTIONS 💜

ttylog follows the GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ('-'). a summary of the options is included below:

• -h, --help — displays a little help 🫶
• -v, --version — version number of ttylog plus Copyright information
• -b, --baud — baud rate of the device. available baud rates: 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600 and 115200
• -d --device — the serial device. for example /dev/ttyS1
• -f --flush — output buffers are flushed after every write. obsessed with a fresh buffer ngl 🌈
• -t --timeout — how long to run ttylog, in seconds. ⏰

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was originally written by Tibor Koleszar <t.koleszar@somogy.hu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. modifications and updates written by Robert James Clay <jame@rocasa.us>.

lowkey a whole glow-up story — the original author wrote it, and then someone came in and gave it updates. we love a collaborative arc. 🫶

and that's the tea, bestie 💖 this page is from the TTYLOG(8) manual, dated 2016-06-02 — go log something iconic. periodt. ✨🎀🦋