Are there any applications that run on Linux (prefer Ubuntu if possible) to act as a data collector for serial to Ethernet?
Is there a way to do with this a Linux distro? Are there any Linux applications that can listen on a port and output the data to a plain text file?
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It can listen on any port (e. g. 12345) by calling it as
nc -p 12345 -l
If you simply redirect it's output to a file ("nc -p 12345 -l > output.txt"), you'll have a dump of the contents it read (try connecting to the running instance, e. g. from the same host, by "nc localhost 12345" and type some text, end with Ctrl-C).