All devices on Unix are mapped to a device file, the serial ports would be /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 ... .

First have a look at the permissions on that file, lets assume you are using /dev/ttyS1.

ls -l /dev/ttyS1

You will want read.write access, if this is a shared system then you should consider the security consequences of opening it up for everyone.

chmod o+rw /dev/ttyS1

A very simple crude method to write to the file, would use the simple echo command.

echo -ne '\033[2J' > /dev/ttyS1

and to read

cat -v < /dev/ttyS1

You can have cat running in one terminal, and echo in a 2nd.

If everything is gibberish, then baud rate, bit settings might need setting before you start sending. stty will do that. !! NOTE stty will use stdin as default file descriptor to affect.

Equivilent commands.

stty -speed 19200 < /dev/ttyS1
stty -speed 19200 -f /dev/ttyS1

This might be enough for you to script something and log ? Not sure what you are trying to achieve.

For a more interactive, remembers your default settings approach would be to use minicom it is just a program which does everything I've mentioned so far. (similar to hyperterminal in Windows, you might be familiar).

An intermediate solution, would use a terminal program like screen which will work on a serial device.

screen /dev/ttyS1

man screen man minicom man stty for more information

All devices on Unix are mapped to a device file, the serial ports would be /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 ... .

First have a look at the permissions on that file, lets assume you are using /dev/ttyS1.

ls -l /dev/ttyS1

You will want read.write access, if this is a shared system then you should consider the security consequences of opening it up for everyone.

chmod o+rw /dev/ttyS1

A very simple crude method to write to the file, would use the simple echo command.

echo -ne '\033[2J' > /dev/ttyS1

and to read

cat -v < /dev/ttyS1

You can have cat running in one terminal, and echo in a 2nd.

If everything is gibberish, then baud rate, bit settings might need setting before you start sending. stty will do that. !! NOTE stty will use stdin as default file descriptor to affect.

Equivalent commands.

stty 19200 < /dev/ttyS1
stty 19200 -F /dev/ttyS1

This might be enough for you to script something and log ? Not sure what you are trying to achieve.

For a more interactive, remembers your default settings approach would be to use minicom it is just a program which does everything I've mentioned so far. (similar to hyperterminal in Windows, you might be familiar).

An intermediate solution, would use a terminal program like screen which will work on a serial device.

screen /dev/ttyS1

man screen man minicom man stty for more information