I found this little script on internet to get a list of all the usb connected devices. Unfortunaltly this script provides too much information for what I need it to do.

Original script can be found on : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144029/command-to-determine-ports-of-a-device-like-dev-ttyusb0 Pay stackexchange a visit, it is an very informative site.

The script has been slightly altered to fit my needs. I only want to see the TTY interface, if any.

Original code :

#!/bin/bash

for sysdevpath in $(find /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*/ -name dev); do
    (
        syspath="${sysdevpath%/dev}"
        devname="$(udevadm info -q name -p $syspath)"
        [[ "$devname" == "bus/"* ]] && exit
        eval "$(udevadm info -q property --export -p $syspath)"
        [[ -z "$ID_SERIAL" ]] && exit
        echo "/dev/$devname - $ID_SERIAL"
    )
done

As mentioned before, this provides too much information. Information of all connected usb devices. All I had to do is change a filter which exludes “bus/” but now only include “tty”.

This is the altered script I use;

#!/bin/bash

for sysdevpath in $(find /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*/ -name dev)
do
(      syspath="${sysdevpath%/dev}"
       devname="$(udevadm info -q name -p $syspath)"

       # I only want to see tty related devices.
       #no webcam, no mouse, no keyboards just tty interfaces
       [[ "$devname" != "tty"* ]] && exit

       # enrich the info with vendor/model information
       eval "$(udevadm info -q property --export -p $syspath)"
       [[ -z"$ID_SERIAL" ]] && exit
       echo -e"/dev/$devname\t-- $ID_SERIAL"
)    
done

If a tty device is found you will get an outlut like ;

robert@laptop:~$ lstty                        
/dev/ttyUSB0    -- FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_<some identifier>

This script is placed in ~/bin. With the proper rights to execute the script; “chmod +x ~/bin/lstty”. Since bash is defined in the shebang, there is no need to keep the “.sh” suffix. But be carefull when no tty device is found, no output will be given.