Shell script to find usb device name

[ninja123]

Dear All,

I have a usb to serial converter which i plug in to Ubuntu Natty.
I see that on every reboot this seems to come up as a different device name, say ttyUSB0, ttyUSB3 etc.

I want to write a simple shell script to get the name of the device in a shellscript.

I have not written a shellscript before so can anyone help?

Thanks.

[three18ti]

Personally I would do it in Perl and not bash. Perl IMHO is easier to learn than bash. Not to mention I find it easier to read.

try something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $dmesg = `dmesg`;
my $port = $dmesg =~ m/(ttyUSB*+)/;
print $port . "\n";

you could even put that into a commandline one liner:

perl -e '$_ = `dmesg`; $port = m/(ttyUSB*+)/; print "$port \n";'

this is untested as I do not have a usb to serial readily available.