At 10:44 AM +1000 3/28/07, Cameron Simpson wrote: >On 27Mar2007 16:54, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >| dd if=/dev/dvd bs=2048 count=$(isosize -d 2048 /dev/dvd) | sha1sum > >isosize is a binary! Ugh. The man page doesn't say: does it do anything >more than my (fixed) "ls|awk" incantation? Yes. It looks inside the .iso header for the size. It works for .isos on disk as well as on media. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>