10.5: Eject stubborn disk images via AppleScript

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10.5: Eject stubborn disk images via AppleScript
Authored by: ctierney on Wed, May 21 2008 at 8:42AM PDT

If you need to do this from a shell script, you could try this (where $VOLNAME is the name of your disk):

hdiutil detach `mount | sed -ne 's|^\(/dev/[^ ]*\).*/Volumes/'"$VOLNAME"'.*mounted by.*|\1|p'` -force