Binary transfer script for minicom.

README.md

Configure minicom with minicom -s and enter the “File transfer protocols” section. You can add a section there called “binary”, point it at your file, and specify:

Field	Value
Name	Binary
Program	bin-xfer -o %l
Name	Y
U/D	U
FullScr	Y
IO-Red	N
Multi	N

bin-xfer.sh

#!/bin/sh
INFILE=/dev/null
OUTFILE=/dev/null

function exists {
  command -v $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
}

while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 case "$1" in
 -i)
 shift
 INFILE="$1"
 ;;
 -o)
 shift
 OUTFILE="$1"
 ;;
 -h|--help)
 echo "$0 -i infile -o outfile"
 ;;
 *)
 INFILE="$1"
 esac
 shift
done
cat << EOF
binary-xfer utility for minicom
Sending file ${INFILE} to ${OUTFILE}
EOF

if (exists pv); then
  pv --force -i 0.25 -B 128  ${INFILE}  2>&1 > ${OUTFILE}
else
  cat ${INFILE} > ${OUTFILE}
fi

cat << EOF
 
File transfer complete
EOF

sleep 1