Mr Burns
Written on July 11th 2007, 03:07 by sYnie
I was searching for a tool to burn CDs and DVDs on Mac OS X without any GUI or interface. I’m used to the shell, as I’m a Linux user. The only option was to use hdiutil, whose commands I found too hard to remember. So I coded a small program, which makes use of hdiutil in order to easily burn DVDs and CDs using the terminal. The name of it is “Mr Burns” 
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After copying the applications to a path within your $PATH variable, it can be used like this:
- `mrburns` for copying disc2disc (with the first 2 drives found)
- `mrburns -o devicenumber` defines the drive you want to burn with
- `mrburns -i file|folder|image|devicenumber` defines the file or image or device you want to burn.
- `mrburns -l` lists all the devicenumbers (for usage with -o or -i)
- `mrburns –help` to read what i just wrote
Examples:
- `mrburns -i 2` uses device number two to read from
- `mrburns -i /Users/synie/a_folder -o 1` burns the content of this folder to the disc in device 1
- `mrburns -i ~/foo.iso` burns this iso to the default burning device
A lot of mac users aren’t used to the shell in a way, that they would even use it to burn discs. But maybe this app is helpful for some Linux guys who sometimes work with macs