Identifying and locating USB devices

These widely used commands can be used to list and learn about connected USB devices in Linux.

lsusb
dmesg
dmesg | less
dmesg | grep ttyUSB
usb-devices
lsblk
sudo blkid.
sudo fdisk -l

lsusb

list the device tree to get port:device

lsusb -t

list all the details about a device at port 1: device 3

lsusb -v -s 1:3

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