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Extended timestamp as default in minicom

I recently started using minicom and I always need to do

  • Ctrl+A+n (x2): Timestamp every line (extended)

I didn't found anything neither in the man (except for)

N Toggle between three states, whether each line is prefixed with current date and time, a timestamp is added every second, or no timestamps.

nor in the minicom setup (minicom -s).

Is there a way to make this the default behavior?

Solution

  • You can use -O timestamp=extended, so type in terminal for example:

    minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0 -O timestamp=extended

    This has been updated with minicom 2.8