Recorders, Players, Stereo Components, and Blank Media . The majority of the MinDisc devices sold were portable recorders. These fused the playback abilities of a standard portable CD or cassette player, with additional line-in, USB, and optical recording options.
69. You can do this with a function: $ cdls () { cd "$@" && ls; } The && means ' cd to a directory, and if successful (e.g. the directory exists), run ls '. Using the && operator is better than using a semicolon ; operator in between the two commands, as with { cd "$@"; ls; }. This second command will run ls regardless if the cd worked or not.
I am assuming that you actually ran cd --and not cd--since the latter would have given a much clearer error: $ cd-- bash: cd--: command not found Unless you have your own script or function named cd--in which case we cannot know what happened, but you would.
For example cp -R /dev/sr0 image.iso would make image.iso a file through which the CD drive is accessed, just like /dev/sr0, instead of a regular file containing copy of the content of the CD which you get with cp /dev/sr0 image.iso. –