cd-read(1)

cd-read1

Reads information from a cd or cd-image

Usage

cd-read [OPTION ...]

Overview

-a, --access-mode=STRING

Set CD control access mode

-m, --mode=MODE-TYPE

set CD-ROM read mode (audio, m1f1, m1f2, m2mf1, m2f2)

-d, --debug=INT

Set debugging to LEVEL

-x, --hexdump

Show output as a hex dump. The default is a hex dump when output goes to stdout and no hex dump when output is to a file.

-j, --just-hex

Don't display printable chars on hex dump. The default is print chars too.

--no-header

Don't display header and copyright (for regression testing)

--no-hexdump

Don't show output as a hex dump.

-s, --start=INT

Set LBA to start reading from

-e, --end=INT

Set LBA to end reading from

-n, --number=INT

Set number of sectors to read

-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

-i, --input[=FILE]

set source and determine if "bin" image or device

-C, --cdrom-device[=DEVICE]

set CD-ROM device as source

-N, --nrg-file[=FILE]

set Nero CD-ROM disk image file as source

-t, --toc-file[=FILE]

set "TOC" CD-ROM disk image file as source

-o, --output-file=FILE

Output blocks to file rather than give a hexdump.

-V, --version

display version and copyright information and exit

Help options:

-?, --help

Show this help message

--usage

Display brief usage message

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7–9
  4. 10
  5. 11–12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Author

Rocky Bernstein <[email protected]>

From libcdio 2.4.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.