iso-creator

A Bash script to create ISO images from files and directories, with support for ZIP extraction, logging, and custom labels.

🚀 Features

• ✅ Free! I made this idea so as not to be limited to the ~870MB that AnyToISO allows to convert for free. (This is not a replacement, just a small alternative).
• ✅ Windows & Linux compatibility (Check the windows-version folder for Windows program).
• ✅ Create ISO images from files and directories
• ✅ Support for custom for the ISO image.
• ✅ ZIP extraction (optional) before adding to the ISO.
• ✅ Dependency validation (mkisofs, unzip, zip)
• ✅ Disk space check to prevent errors
• ✅ Activity logging via iso_creator.log
• ✅ Robust error handling with clear messages
• ✅ Automatic cleanup of temporary files
• ✅ User-friendly command-line options (-l for label, etc.)

🔧 Ideas

• ✅ Change to another language to be able to port this to Windows.
• 💡 Support more file types

📥 Installation

Make sure you have the required dependencies installed:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install genisoimage zip unzip

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/UndeffinedDev/iso-creator.git
cd iso-creator
chmod +x iso-creator.sh

📌 Usage

Basic Usage

./iso-creator.sh file1 file2 directory1 output.iso

This will create an ISO named output.iso containing the specified files and directories.

Using a Custom Label

./iso-creator.sh -l "MyCustomLabel" file1 directory1 output.iso

The -l option sets a custom label for the ISO image.

Example Output

$ ./iso-creator.sh -l PYTHON_EXECUTABLES Pythons.zip

Starting script...
Processing files/directories...
Processing ZIP archive: Pythons.zip
  -> Extracted: /tmp/tmp.KZiX6JNLCy/python-2.7.18.amd64.msi
  -> Extracted: /tmp/tmp.KZiX6JNLCy/python-3.4.4.amd64.msi
Creating ISO image...
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
 21.81% done, estimate finish Fri Mar 28 22:11:33 2025
 43.62% done, estimate finish Fri Mar 28 22:11:33 2025
 65.33% done, estimate finish Fri Mar 28 22:11:33 2025
 87.14% done, estimate finish Fri Mar 28 22:11:33 2025
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 358
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
22961 extents written (44 MB)
ISO successfully created: output.iso

⚠️ Requirements

Note

In some linux distributions, mkisofs is a genisoimage symbolic link, but the script still checks for either of these two commands

• Linux-based OS (Tested on Linux Mint 22.1 | Xia)
• mkisofs (or genisoimage)
• unzip, zip

🛠️ Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests to improve the script!

📜 License

Copyleft (ↄ) 2025 - Free use under the terms of the GNU GPL or similar licenses.