Hi
i am very new to shell scripting and i am stuck at the following problem
1. Write a script to list the USB devices mounted on a Linux system?
a. And the script should list of files stored on the USB stick


I am using command "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb*" to find usb mounted on system but not able to access the files on usb stick
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

You are using the path to the device in /dev, which doesn't work to list files. You should use the path to the mountpoint. You could find out the mountpount by reading it from the output of

without any arguments.

Thanks joe 2000
but in mount command no usb device is showing but in above ls command 3 are showing. can you just tell me how to find those.

If there is no USB listed in mount output my first guess would be that your USB devices aren't mounted. Mount them and try again.

The entries in /dev/disk/by-id/usb* do not reflect if they are mounted. These entries show the device, the available partitions on them (if any) and the /dev/xyz entries they can be reached at.

A lot of distro's use automount and this might give the impression that you are looking at mounted entries, which is not the case.

You need to check the ../../sdXY entries shown in /dev/disk/by-id/usb* to the /dev/sdXY entries shown in the output of the mount command to make sure they are actually mounted.

The red entry is the device itself and not of any interest in this case. The green part is.
If the above command shows an entry then it is mounted. This also shows you its mountpoint (the blue part), which can be used to list what is on it.

Up to you to try to accomplish this. We are willing to help if you get stuck, but won't do the assignment for you.

I might combine outputs from lsusb and mount then mount if not alread then use them into a way to ls.