Take the tour ×  I'm trying to do something tricky, I want to
burn a directory structure onto a CD from a pipe stream. The
reason is that it is coming from the network and I don't want it
written on the hard drive of the cd-burning machine.  I am
unsure of how (or if possible) to pipe the output of tar (for
example) into genisoimage or mkisofs. I noticed a stream option
in genisoimage, but when I tried doing  tar -cvf - /home/myuser
| genisoimage --stream-media-size 200 -o test.iso  I only got a
test.iso which contained a stream.img (as specified in
genisoimage(1)) which itself was the original tar-archive. This
will not do, it needs to be a directory structure on the CD.  I
know that cdrskin (cli tool for burning) can take data from
stdin and burn it.  So how can I pipe data into genisoimage,
have it create a directory structure of that data for the ISO
and then have it pipe that data back out to cdrskin to burn? I
know also that genisoimage pipes the iso data to stdout by
default so my only issue appears to