Quoting Macy1 Hallock <macy1@hallock.net>:
> Both Eben and Wayne suggested using a named pipe, which I thought
> would be a good solution. However, it does not work, error message
> returned by cups is
>
> lpr: unable to print file: client-error-bad-request
>
> I also tried lp since it handles stdin slightly differently with the
> same error msg returned.
>
> Still looking for a solution... any suggestions welcomed.
What about redirecting stdout to the printer device and then simply cat the
file?
exec > /dev/lp0 (or whatever the printer device is)
exec 2>&1
cat filename.txt
-Rich
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