I'm not that sophisticated, I guess something like this will have to do: egrep "sd[b-e]|Mounted" /var/log/messages | egrep -v -i "installing|cache|error|write" | more
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Michael Quick <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for responding! Basically I was looking to get a history of who > has plugged in a USB drive to machine X. What does this return on your > system ? Notice FAT drives will not be found, I'm not sure how to search > for them yet. I also noticed that keyring spits out messages as well and I > could try to use that. > > less messages* | egrep "ntfs-3g" | grep "Mounted" > less messages* | grep "EXT[3-4]" | grep "sd[b-c]" | grep "mounted" > > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thursday, August 09, 2012 17:34:20, Michael Quick wrote: >> > Hi, >> > In a bash script I want to list all of the USB drives that have been >> > connected to my system. Anyone have a clue on the best way to do this ? >> >> It depends on what you're looking for. >> >> 'lsusb' can list USB devices, but that will only get you a device ID. >> >> If what you're looking for is a device you can *mount* then I suggest >> looking >> under /dev/disk/<subdirs> which is the area where udev. Within there are >> several subdirectories: >> >> /by-label/ -> you can mount devices by drive label >> /by-uuid/ -> you can mount by filesystem UUID >> /by-path/ -> you can mount device partitions by path >> /by-id/ -> you can mount filesystems by device ID >> >> -- Chris >> >> -- >> Chris Knadle >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College >> Sep 5 - OpenStack >> Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development >> Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art >> > >
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