How to read thumb drive volume label

[carolus]

On 3/14/2011 11:11 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks. I didn't realize that the output of dir depended on whether it 
was invoked from cygwin or from cmd, and I didn't know about label.exe.


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