Cdcopy

Bash script to automate copying data from CDs?.

Detects media insertion (via HAL, using polling *blegh*)

!/bin/bash

cdcopy.sh: copy a data CD to disk

mark AT cognomen DOT co DOT uk

CDROM=$1 # CD-ROM device
MNTPNT=$2 # CD-ROM mount point
OF=/data/ # output directory

eject $CDROM
UDI=hal-find-by-property --key block.device --string $CDROM | tail -n1

while ((1)) ; do
if [ hal-get-property --udi $UDI --key storage.removable.media_available == 'true' ]
then
mount $CDROM
if ((! $?))
then
echo; echo "Copying the source CD to $OF."
cp -av $MNTPNT/* $OF || echo Copy failed 

            else  
                    echo; echo "Failed to mount CD. Ejecting"  
            fi  
            eject $CDROM  
    fi  
    sleep 3

done

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