How do you mount the usb device? I did have mine mounted but something died (wilbour!)
I've read the man page for man and tried a few things but couldn't get it to work. I dont' understand enough about the usb interface into linux. Are their any common gotya's ? Cheers Don On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 13:27, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tuesday 07 March 2006 12:31, chris bayley wrote: > > Hi team.... > > > > I have been whipping up a wee bash script to empty out the photos of my > > digital camera to my storage device. > > You can mount some cameras as USB storage devices, thus making their memory > to appear as if its a standard drive. > > [ ... ] > > Don't forget that cp has a --force option which makes it silent, ie it > changes the mode from 400 to 644 provided you own the file, but it seems > that it doesn't change it back. For shutting it up completely you can > always redirect the stderr o/p to /dev/null > > Also the test command allow you test all manor of details about files, > and whether a previous command succeeded. Many unix systems ( used to ) > link /usr/bin/test to /usr/bin/[ but it seems my current Linux distro > doesn't > > cp --help > man cp > man test > > The advanced bash scripting guide:- > http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-3.7.tar.bz2 > ( not terribly 'advanced' actually ) -- Don Gould
