Hello Richard,

> Re: Burning a DVD from the commandline?
> By: mark lewis to Jeff Smith on Thu Aug 29 2019 09:18 am

>> i do have a question of my own, though... what's is wrong with creating an
>> ISO first and then writing it to the CD/DVD??

The DVD is to be a simple backup of a directory and it's sub-directories. I
know that I could create an ISO of the directory tree. But all I wish to do
 create a simple "Copy-N-Paste" to the DVD of the directory. IOW,
the backed up directory would be as easily readable from the DVD as it was
from the HDD.

> I cannot speak for him, but needing to create a whole ISO image,
> store and then record it... well, it is a bit ugly and wastes
> storage space. If you can  just create the image and buffer it
> and record it without having to put it in the hard drive, that
> would save both time and hard drive space.

I can burn the directory manually by using one of the available CD/DVD
burning apps. And simply selecting the directory in the app and click burn.

But was hoping to automate the process with the use of a BASH script.

Jeff

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