Meteostick readout with Linux shellscripts

[baseball]

I've a meteostock and want to read it out with plain Linux shellscripts to integrate it in my own software.

My current way ist ro read the data for five minutes in a plain text file,then start an new file and process the previous file. I use an init-script to initialisze the /dev/ttyUSB device, then initialisize the meteostick and al least start the read out.