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Help burning CDs?
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AH! Oh well no harm no foul, I can run my script as root, I trust me!
Cdrecord -checkdrive does output a whole mess of stuff:
And the only part I need is the part that says /dev/sr0/.
I will try deleting the /dev/ part entirely though and see what happens (probably tomorrow evening). If it works that'll be perfect. Thanks!
Edit: No dice, dev=/dev/sr0 is needed in my case.
This is a very goofy workaround for you that doesn't actually check what the device is. Only checks if /dev/sr0 exists and if yes, use that if no then use /dev/sr1. Better solution below this block. But leaving it because I kind of like it's jankiness.
Not elegant and a little janky but works.
This will work better. We are taking the output of -checkdrive, searching for "Detected" and sending that to awk. We are telling awk to split that line into columns based on this character ":" and to print the second column. That should give you an output of " /dev/sr0" with a space in front.
That should work. But if you absolutely must kill the whitespace for some reason we can add trim to the end like so
There might be a more elegant solution by using the output of "cdrecord -scanbus" instead. No clue though since I don't have the hardware to verify from here. Hope that helps!
This looks like it'll work perfectly, thank you! When I get home from work I'll play around with -scanbus and see if it works out first, then I'll try with the space and if no dice I'll try without the space!
I'm also going to try k3b and see how that works as another poster was saying, but at this point I think I prefer the script lmao!