Macy1 Hallock wrote:
> A simple question for our SLUG bash wizards...
>
> I'm hacking a vendors ancient COBOL program output to print using lpr
> (via cups) in Fedora.
>
> Given a program output similar to that produced by "cat textfile.txt >"
> If I append the sting "/dev/ttyS01" it prints to the serial port. But
> I want to print using the cups spooler. I can't using lpr, because the
> pipe metacharacter won't function.
>
> So, how can I print the stdout via lpr under cups, not using a pipe?
>
> Note that I can't modify the command shown in quotes, I can only
> append to it, and there's a 15 character field limit to boot.
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
Wayne Pollock sent along via email the following useful comments..
The answer may be to setup a named pipe, with mkfifo. Then you start
lpr (with any options you want) reading from the named pipe,
and later you can redirection output to it:
mkfifo /tmp/prntr
Then to print with lpr and no pipe, repeat for each print job:
lpr < /tmp/prntr &
cat file > /tmp/prntr
Hope this helps!
-Wayne Pollock
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