[NTLUG:Discuss] Crash Boom with Grep

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Wed Jul 14 18:52:29 CDT 2004


Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
> Wow,
>   I knew grep was useful, but I did not know it could copy CDs.

Sure:

     grep -a \. /dev/cdrom  > somefile

..tadaaa! A copy of your CD!

:-)

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