bootterm

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# BootTerm\n\nBootTerm is a simple, reliable and powerful terminal designed to ease connection to ephemeral serial ports as found on various SBCs, and typically USB-based ones.\n\n## Main Features\n\n- automatic port detection (uses the most recently registered one by default)\n- enumeration of available ports with detected drivers and descriptions\n- wait for a specific, a new, or any port to appear (convenient with USB ports)\n- support for non-standard baud rates (e.g. 74880 bauds for ESP8266)\n- can send a Break sequence and toggling RTS/DTR for various reset sequences, even on startup\n- fixed/timed captures to files (may be enabled at run time)\n- optionally time-stamped captures (relative/absolute dates)\n- reliable with proper error handling\n- single binary without annoying dependencies, builds out of the box\n- supports stdin/stdout to inject/download data\n- configurable escape character and visible character ranges\n\n## Setup\n\nSetting it up and installing it are fairly trivial. By default it will install in `/usr/local/bin` though this can be changed with the `PREFIX` variable, e.g. to install in ~/.local/bin instead:\n\n```\n$ git clone https://github.com/wtarreau/bootterm\n$ cd bootterm\n$ make install PREFIX=~/.local\n$ (or \"sudo make install\" for a system-wide installation)\n```\n\nThe program comes with no other dependency than a basic libc and produces a single binary (`bt`). It can easily be cross-compiled by setting `CROSS_COMPILE` or `CC`, though the makefile only adds unneeded abstraction and could simply be bypassed (please check it, it\u0027s self-explanatory). It was tested on several Linux distros and platforms (i386, x86\\_64, arm, aarch64), on macOS, on FreeBSD 12 (arm64) and on AIX 5.1 (ppc).\n\nAlternatively, BootTerm is available in some repositories:\n\n[ ![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/bootterm.svg) ](https://repology.org/project/bootterm/versions)\n\n## Using it\n\n### Most common usage\nBy default, `bt` connects to the last registered seri",
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