Terminal Opening CD drive

[trainguy77]

Can you open you CD drive from Terminal. I found ways to eject media but I want to open the drive when nothing is in it.(emac) I really am just wondering if it can be done.

Also can you have terminal display a text bubble/alert on the screen?

 

[grapes911]

To open the cd drive:
drutil tray eject

 

[robbieduncan]

You can use Applscript from the Terminal to display a dialog. You cannot call display dialog directly, but you can have the Finder do it for you:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display dialog "Your message here"'