CD-READ(1)

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version 2.4.0 · 7 versions
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💿 CD-READ(1) — the cd-read manual page, section 1 (User Commands) 💿

okay bestie, listen up 👑 this is the manual page for cd-read, and it lives in the User Commands part of the manual, and the manual's own name is just… cd-read. cute, right? it reads information from a CD or a CD-image. that's literally the whole vibe ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

cd-read — reads Information from a CD or CD-image 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cd-read [OPTION...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

she's a reader, she reads 💖 here's every single knob and dial you can turn, no notes, no skips:

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -a, --access-mode=STRING — set the CD control access mode 🔧
  • -m, --mode=MODE-TYPE — set the CD-ROM read mode. the valid vibes are audio, m1f1, m1f2, m2mf1, m2f2 🎵
  • -d, --debug=INT — set debugging to LEVEL (yes, LEVEL, that's the placeholder, keep it) 🐛
  • -x, --hexdump — show output as a hex dump. the default is: hex dump when output goes to stdout, and no hex dump when output is to a file. she decides for you, and honestly? she's right 🫶
  • -j, --just-hex — don't display printable chars on the hex dump. the default is to print chars too 👀
  • --no-header — don't display header and copyright. it's for regression testing, that's the whole reason, no cap 🧪
  • --no-hexdump — don't show output as a hex dump. the anti-hexdump agenda 💀
  • -s, --start=INT — set the LBA to start reading from 🏁
  • -e, --end=INT — set the LBA to end reading from 🛑
  • -n, --number=INT — set the number of sectors to read 🔢
  • -b, --bin-file[=FILE] — set a "bin" CD-ROM disk image file as the source 📀
  • -c, --cue-file[=FILE] — set a "cue" CD-ROM disk image file as the source 🎯
  • -i, --input[=FILE] — set the source, and let her figure out whether it's a "bin" image or a device. she'll know 🧠
  • -C, --cdrom-device[=DEVICE] — set a CD-ROM device as the source 🔌
  • -N, --nrg-file[=FILE] — set a Nero CD-ROM disk image file as the source 🔥
  • -t, --toc-file[=FILE] — set a "TOC" CD-ROM disk image file as the source 📋
  • -o, --output-file=FILE — output blocks to a file rather than giving a hexdump 📝
  • -V, --version — display version and copyright information, then exit. she leaves the party early 😌

✨ Help options: ✨

  • -?, --help — show this help message 🆘
  • --usage — display a brief usage message 📖

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org> — the icon who made this happen 👑

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.

and then, literally verbatim, the driver roll-call 👇

  • 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. No CD-ROM device found. not her finding out mid-manpage. rip.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 this is cd-read version 2.4.0, dated August 2026, and it's the CD-READ(1) page — go read some CDs, bestie, ily 💜🎀✨

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