uart_control on Pi 4 returns 'File name too long' error

[samuel-pratt]

Running sudo ./uart_control gpio on Raspberry pi 4 returns a File name too long error.

Steps before this were:
wget https://github.com/itemir/rpi_boat_utils/raw/master/uart_control/uart_control
chmod +x ./uart_control
sudo ./uart_control gpio

Trying to make it work with a daisy hat.

Full error message (very long) is below:
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UART is normally used by the console on Raspberry Pi 0, 1 and 2. On Raspberry Pi 3, UART is used by the Bluetooth module and console is assigned to a software based UART known as mini UART. Many custom boards require access to UART via GPIO pins 14 and 15. This requires a set of configuration changes that differ per platform. 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[astuder]

based on the error message, it looks like the uart_control file isn't the shell script but some JSON or HTML response from Github. Try to run the wget command again.

You can check the script by running cat uart_control. The output should look something like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2017 Ilker Temir <[email protected]>

[...]

printf "      gpio    Makes UART available on GPIO pins 14 & 15\n"
printf "      status  Displays current status\n"