Script help

[pjman]

I'd like to run a script that executes the following command:


cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile <name of CD>.bin --device ATAPI:0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc-raw <name of CD>.toc

I want the <name of CD> to be automatically pulled from the title of the CD (it's a data cd). I'd probably be able to figure it out but I don't know the command to get the title of the inserted CD. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!

[po0f]

pjman,

I can't give you a specific answer, but I can point you in the right direction. You will want to look into D-BUS, and possibly, HAL.

[lnostdal]

this is probably simple enough to do in a SH-script:



lars@ibmr52:~/programming$ volname /dev/cdrom
Ubuntu 6.10 i386

..right .. so:



lars@ibmr52:~/programming$ emacs -nw getVolName.sh
lars@ibmr52:~/programming$ cat getVolName.sh
#!/usr/bin/env sh
echo "Volume name is \"`volname /dev/cdrom`\"."
lars@ibmr52:~/programming$ chmod +x getVolName.sh
lars@ibmr52:~/programming$ ./getVolName.sh
Volume name is "Ubuntu 6.10 i386 ".


..you probalby get the idea.. :)

[po0f]

lnostdal,

I knew there had to be a simple command as the answer. I'm sure I'll find this useful. :)

[pjman]

Cool. I'll give it a try.

Thanks for the help!

[pjman]

I'm almost there. Does anyone know how to get rid of the blank space before the "."?


Volume name is "Ubuntu 6.10 i386 ".

Thank you!

**Edit**

I got it working using 'sed' following the FAQ here (http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/tutorials/sedfaq.txt) (section 3.2). I just wish I understood how sed works :-)

Here's the code for the script in case anyone is interested.



#!/usr/bin/env sh
cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile "`volname /dev/hdc | sed 's/[ ^t]*$//'`".bin --device ATAPI:0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc-raw "`volname /dev/hdc | sed 's/[ ^t]*$//'`".toc


I had to use /dev/hdc and not /dev/cdrom, I'm not sure why.