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Sams Teach Yourself UNIX® in 24 Hours Second Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself UNIX® in 24 Hours Second Edition

by Dave Taylor, James C. Armstrong
December 1998
Beginner
512 pages
12h 13m
English
Sams
Content preview from Sams Teach Yourself UNIX® in 24 Hours Second Edition

Goals for this Hour

In this hour, you learn how to

  • Find local printers with printers

  • Send a print job to a printer with lpr or lp

  • Format print jobs with pr

  • Work with the print queue by using lpq, lprm

Various techniques can minimize the complexity of printing in UNIX, the best of which is to create an alias called print that has all the default configuration information you want. If you define PRINTER as an environment variable, most of the UNIX print utilities will default to the printer you specify as the value of the PRINTER environment variable, for example, when searching print queues for jobs. The queue, or list, is where all print jobs are placed for processing by the specific printer.

The differing "philosophies" of BSD and System V have ...

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