On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:24:20AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:19:24PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > find /dev/cdrom -type f -exec cat {} \> /dev/null \;
> >
> > And watch the system console or log for errors.
>
> Hmm, I tried that and received no output at all. (Yes, /dev/cdrom is
> symlinked correctly and the CD is in the drive.) It just gives me
> another command prompt, and I don't seem to still have a find process
> running.
You'll want to
mount /cdrom # or wherever you mount your CD ROMs
find /cdrom -type f -exec cat {} \> /dev/null \;
doing it on the device file won't get you anywhere :)
> --
> Thomas J. Hamman
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