How to detect wheather usb drive is connected thru script

linux1 · 06-05-2008, 03:14 AM

Hi,

is there any way to detect usb drive through a script.
A script which will do polling , to detect usb drive.

Thanks in Advance

lugoteehalt · 06-05-2008, 09:14 AM

Don't quite understand and am not scripting pundit, however:

When a USB drive is plugged in a unique names for it appear somewhere in the /dev directory (assuming you are running udev or whatever it is called). So, for example, there will be a long name for the thing in /dev/disk/by-id. So how about writing a script that simply tests for that name being present?

knudfl · 06-05-2008, 09:34 AM

Try this command in a terminal : 'lsusb'

Rgds