CDCTL(1) BSD Reference Manual CDCTL(1)
NAME
cdctl - control various functions of a cdrom drive
DESCRIPTION
This program allows some functions of a cdrom drive to be controlled from
the command line. The options are:
-s num: Play an audio CD starting at the given track number.
-e num: Specify the end track number for playing an audio CD. The de-
fault is to play until the end of the disk.
-t: Print the table of contents. This is a listing of track numbers and
durations. Durations are listed in minutes:seconds:frames, where a frame
is 1/75'th of a second.
-h: Print a hash code that represents the table of contents. You might
use this to index a database of disk titles.
-S: Stop playing
-w: This flag causes cdctl to wait until the play operation is complete
before exiting.
-p: Print a status message every second while the play operation pro-
ceeds, then exit when playing is finished. You could use this in a pipe
to make a fancier display program.
-f filename: Specify the cdrom device name. If omittied, cdctl will ex-
amine the environment variable CDROM, and finally try /dev/rcdrom. For a
SCSI drive, use the C partition of the raw device, for example,
/dev/rsd1c.
To use a SCSI drive, cdctl must run as root.
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