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Mac OS X in a Nutshell
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Mac OS X in a Nutshell

by Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek, Chris Stone
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

cancel

Synopsis

cancel [options] [printer]

Cancels print requests made with lp. The request can be specified by its ID, by the printer on which it is currently printing, or by the username associated with the request (only privileged users can cancel another user’s print requests). Use lpstat to determine either the id or the printer to cancel.

Options

-a

Cancel all queued requests to the specified printer.

-h

Specifies the hostname of the print server hostname, “localhost” by default.

id

Cancel print request id.

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