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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
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CC: "'Charles Russell'" <worwor AT bellsouth DOT net>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:11:33 -0400
Subject: RE: How to read thumb drive volume label
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Charles Russell sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 10:03 AM
>Is there some way to read the volume label on a USB flash drive?
>Something like blkid in linux?

Something like this?

function label() {
    $(cygpath --sysdir)/cmd /c dir ${1}:\\ | \
        tr \\r \\n | \
        sed -n -e '1s/^ Volume in drive . is //p'
    }

Or you could play with

$(cygpath --sysdir)/label.exe

Note that both require that one provides the drive letter.

I hope this was not OT.  I apologize for use of tools that come
with Windows, but sometimes I find native tools to be easiest.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

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