-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 October 2002 05:04 pm, Thom Paine wrote: > Is there a command or way to ready the volume id of a cd in the drive? > > I'm building some autoupdate scripts on rw discs and I'd like to > implement in the script a little check to see that the right volume is > in the drive. I'm sure there are better ways, but none I can think of at present. This works on a mounted or unmounted cd in /dev/cdrom $ strings /dev/cdrom | head -2 CD001 LINUX Red Hat Linux/i386 8.0 Since you would know the volume name you are looking for, you should be able to pass the output to grep. Something like this should work: #! /bin/bash strings /dev/cdrom | head -2 | grep -q "Red Hat Linux/i386" || { echo "Error, Volume ID doesn't match!" echo "Exiting" exit 1 } - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9tKUin/07WoAb/SsRAi+LAKCB1puPabE75Rl0D8XUiBMSOlXyPQCgjFMx fURpjBm2KPlMhFbOVILaBDQ= =Lzlk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list