Burn a CD-R without using a temporary image

Dec 16, '03 11:03:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I found in a usenet post that you can pipe mkisofs and cdrecord (included in the cdrtools fink package) like this:

mkisofs -R -J NameOfDirectory/ | cdrecord dev=IODVDServices -v -
to burn a CD without needing the space to create a temporary image.

Notes: Finally, you can create a shell script for this easily:
% vi ~/bin/burndir
Then insert this code:
mkisofs -R -J $1 | cdrecord dev=IODVDServices -v  -
Save it, quit the editor, make it exectuable (chmod +x ~/bin/burndir), and then you only need to type burndir FolderName/ to burn FolderName to CD-R in one step.

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