tools/serial: add support for socat as riot terminal #11034
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Contribution description
This PR provides support for
socat
as an alternative RIOT terminal tool. It was inspired by #11003.The good thing with socat is that it allows redirecting the serial port to anything: the current shell, a TCP server, etc. The default behaviour is to redirect to the current shell like other tools. But it's possible to provide the SOCAT_OUTPUT variable with custom output parameters.
Testing procedure
Issues/PRs references
Inspired by #11003