CD-INFO(1)

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version 2.4.0 · 9 versions
, in arch rolling

💿 CD-INFO(1) — the manual page, but make it make sense ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to cd-info, a user command and honestly kind of a legend. It's the little tool that spills all the tea about a CD or a CD image — like, it will literally tell you what's on that shiny disc. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

cd-info — shows Information about a CD or CD-image 💿🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cd-info [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options go in, info comes out. slay.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the whole menu of flags, and ngl there are a LOT of them, but they're all iconic in their own way. Let's go down the list 🫶

  • -a, --access-mode=STRING — sets the CD access method. You pick the STRING, she does the rest ✨
  • -d, --debug=INT — cranks the debugging up to LEVEL. yes, the manual calls it INT in the flag and LEVEL in the description. that's just how she is 💅
  • -T, --no-tracks — don't show track information. skipping the tracklist, no notes 🙈
  • -A, --no-analyze — don't show filesystem analysis. we're not going that deep rn 😌
  • --no-cddb — Does nothing since this program is not … and the sentence just ends there. iconique. it literally does nothing. 💀
  • -P, --cddb-port=INT — CDDB-enabled. (yes, this description is hanging out on its own line in the original, we're keeping the energy fr fr)
  • -H, --cddb-http — the HTTP flavor of CDDB 🧚
  • --cddb-server=STRING — point her at a CDDB server, STRING style
  • --cddb-cache=STRING — where the CDDB cache lives
  • --cddb-email=STRING — the email she sends along with CDDB stuff
  • --no-cddb-cache — no cache, no problem 🍓
  • --cddb-timeout=INT — how long she waits before giving up on CDDB
  • --no-device-info — Don't show device info, just CD info. cutting out the middleman 💅
  • --no-disc-mode — Don't show disc-mode info. we don't need to know the mode, bestie
  • --dvd — Attempt to give DVD information if a DVD is found. she'll try 👑
  • -v, --no-vcd — Don't look up Video CD information - for this build, this is always set. so like, it's on whether you like it or not 😭
  • -I, --no-ioctl — Don't show ioctl() information
  • -b, --bin-file[=FILE] — set "bin" CD-ROM disk image file as source 🦋
  • -c, --cue-file[=FILE] — set "cue" CD-ROM disk image file as source
  • -N, --nrg-file[=FILE] — set Nero CD-ROM disk image file as source
  • -t, --toc-file[=FILE] — set cdrdao CD-ROM disk image file as source
  • -i, --input[=FILE] — set source and determine if "bin" image or device. she'll figure out what you handed her 🔥
  • --iso9660 — print directory contents of any ISO-9660 filesystems. full directory dump, no cap
  • -C, --cdrom-device[=DEVICE] — set CD-ROM device as source
  • -l, --list-drives — Give a list of CD-drives. window shopping for drives 🌈
  • --no-header — Don't display header and copyright (for regression testing). purely a testing thing, don't @ me
  • --no-joliet — Don't use Joliet extensions
  • --no-rock-ridge — Don't use Rock-Ridge-extension information
  • --no-xa — Don't use XA-extension information
  • -q, --quiet — Don't produce warning output. shhh 🤫
  • -V, --version — display version and copyright information and exit. then she's out 💅

🎀 Help options:

  • -?, --help — Show this help message. the classic 🫶
  • --usage — Display brief usage message. the TL;DR version ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rocky Bernstein rocky@gnu.org, based on the cdinfo program by Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> and Heiko Eissfeldt <heiko@hexco.de>. give them their flowers, they earned them 🌸💐

Copyright © 2003-2005, 2007-2008, 2011-2015, 2017, 2025-2026 R. Bernstein

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like, none. zero. nada. 😭

And then the little status readout, verbatim bestie:

Have driver: GNU/Linux ioctl and MMC driver
Have driver: cdrdao (TOC) disk image driver
Have driver: bin/cuesheet disk image driver
Have driver: Nero NRG disk image driver
No CD-ROM device found.

that last line. 💀 not a single CD-ROM device found. tragic but we move.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay that's the whole page!! go read a disc, bestie 💿💖

this was cd-info version 2.4.0, built for x86_64-p…, dated August 2026 — mwah, love u, bye 🎀✨🫶

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