My favorite is GNU screen, but there are others.
It’s as easy as
$ screen /dev/ttyACM0 115200,8n1
where ACM0 is the name of your serial device (if unsure, check dmesg output) ; you can now enter your commands.
To exit, type (with default screen config) ctrl+a, shift+k then y.
Thank you! I’m in the process of updating all the docs and I’ll include this.
To add to the above I found this post particularly useful for the BP under Linux (paricularly the config file settings):
My BusPirateSetup.sh script in the repo (in the hacks folder) asks the user which terminal emulator they want to use, and sets up a config file that BusPirate.sh will then use.
It asks the user which one to use and gives a choice of:
It correctly sets up the arguments to call the terminal emulator. It also includes the tio options to make backspace work properly.
Added this to the updated docs, thank you.