How to Examine the Contents of a CD

Use the ls -L command to view the contents of /cdrom directory.

$ ls -L [-l] /cdrom/cdrom0

`-L`	Includes symbolic links in the output.
`-l`	Long format. Includes permissions and owners in the output.

The following example lists the contents of the CD loaded into the first CD-ROM directory, /cdrom/cdrom0.

$ ls -L -l /cdrom/cdrom0
dr-xr-xr-x   2  root   sys  2048  Dec 31  1993  tools
dr-xr-xr-x   2  root   sys  2048  Dec 31  1993  graphics