From time to time I find the need to build .iso images of files that have to be burned to CD-ROM disks for storage or transport. However, the CDRtools, while powerful, can be unweildly to work with because of the large number of command line options that each one offers. They can be downright confusing to keep straight in a hurry, which is why I put the most commonly used options for mkisofs into a simple shell script to help speed up the process. You run it like so:

./make_iso.sh /path/to/put/new_iso_image.iso /path/to/files_to_burn

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