>From: "Dave Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Does anybody know how to pipe the O/P of readcd into cdrecord? - ie.
>> for a machine with insufficient diskspace to dump the CD's image or for a
>> faster copy. I tried
>>
>> readcd dev=x,y f=- | cdrecord [options] -
>>
>> but when I checked what was actually written to the CD it had been corrupted by
>> verbiage from readcd's stdout :-(. If I direct readcd's stdout to /dev/null
>> then nothing is piped into cdrecord. In the end I did a
>>
>> cdrecord [options] /dev/scd<n>
>>
>> which was OK since it was a 1-track CD but I'd like to know how to do
>> multi-track CDs in one go.
>You could try something like
> mkfifo /tmp/sleazy-hack
> readcd dev=x,y f=/tmp/sleazy-hack &
> cdrecord [options] /tmp/sleazy-hack
You don't need it:
readcd | cdrecord
just works fine!
in the non error case, readcd is clean since september 1999, since ~september 2000
readcd is even clean when an error occurs.
Jörg
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