how to view cdrom contents in terminal

**raymondvillain** · May 5th, 2009

Running Jaunty. Would like to open a terminal session and view the audio tracks on a CD in the CDROM drive.

On my machine, if I type ls -l cdrom

I get back "cdrom -> media/cdrom"

What identifies a cdrom drive in the shell (bash for my machine)?

I can easily see everything from Nautilus, but I need to be able to do it from a terminal window.

Thanks in advance.

**Vonnick** · May 5th, 2009

Try...

Code:

cd media/cdrom
cd media/cdrom0
cd media/cdrom1

Whichever one of those works.

Then...

Code:

dir

Which will show you the contents of directory.

**Tyke91** · May 5th, 2009

please stop lying

those commands will work if you're already in the / folder. if not, then

Code:

cd /media/cdrom
ls -a

if you want to move and look.

the -a is used to see hidden files.

OR

if you just want to look

Code:

ls -a /media/cdrom

dir will work as well, but ls has more features (like syntax highlighting for different types of files!). If you want to recursively show every file in the CD so that you can scroll through them (which is sometimes handy)
then type

Code: