just get the names of USB devices attached to a system?

Question

Aren\'t there any system calls or OS specific functions that can be called by Java to get just the names of the USB devices attached?

I\'ve seen probably 6-7 questio

Answer 1

You can use the jUsb API, for Linux.

Or you could launch the terminal in Linux using the Process class, and run ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/usb-* and catch the stdout to know the results.

For Windows, you can try this : How to find my USB flash drive's path with PowerShell

EDIT:

For Windows, another helpful utility is the devcon.exe.

For more info, check this.

EDIT 2: For Mac, you could launch the terminal using the Process class, and run system_profiler SPUSBDataType