I was facing a strange issue when debugging a serial communication from a microcontroller on a Linux machine.
I was using this command to print modem communication:
$ cat /dev/ttyUSB0 | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%02X "' -e '/1 "%c\n"' 41 A 54 T 5A Z 0A 0A
The microcontroller was sending “ATZ\r\n” but in the Linux I saw only “ATZ\n\n”, initially I suspected that RTOS NuttX in the microcontroller was converting the “\r” (0x0D) to “\n” (0x0A).
After some low level debug I verified that NuttX was writing “\r” correctly in the serial port’s buffer.
Then I realized the guilt should be the Linux. In fact Linux handles serial port as a TTY interface. It means that Linux will do some post processing of serial data.
Fortunately we can change this behavior configuring the serial port to RAW mode, this way:
$ sudo stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 raw $ sudo stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 -echo -echoe -echok $ sudo stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
Now everything goes fine:
$ cat /dev/ttyUSB0 | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%02X "' -e '/1 "%c\n"' 41 A 54 T 5A Z 0D 0A
Source: http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=Serial_ports_usage_on_Linux