Using cat to deal with mdf files in OSX

[rabbit74]

This is something I used to do in Linux. Just found out it works in OSX just as well. Or even better.

If you come across a stupid Alcohol125% file you can use cat to convert it quickly and easily into an .iso file.

in terminal:
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cat ~/stupid.alcohol.file.mdf > ~/finished.iso

once done just mount it and your done.

rabbit.

ps to those still using Alcohol-125. Please just stop using this crap program!

 

[MacMan]

This is something I used to do in Linux. Just found out it works in OSX just as well. Or even better.

If you come across a stupid Alcohol125% file you can use cat to convert it quickly and easily into an .iso file.

in terminal:

~/stupid.alcohol.file.mdf > ~/finished.iso

once done just mount it and your done.

rabbit.

ps to those still using Alcohol-125. Please just stop using this crap program!

Isn't the terminal command supposed to be:

cat ~/stupid.alcohol.file.mdf > ~/finished.iso

If so, why can't you just rename the file?

 

[rabbit74]

Yes thanks for catching that.

It was late when I posted it.

Sometimes the file is broken into pieces as well so you need to cat the whole thing into one iso file:

cat ~/file.mdf ~/file.md0 ~/file.md1 ~/file.md2 ~/file.md3 > ~/finished.iso

It is rare enough to come across these mdf files but it is nice to have a simple resource to deal with it, when it does happen.