LPR(1) | General Commands Manual | LPR(1) |
lpr
— off line
print
lpr |
[-cdfghlmnopqRrstv ]
[-1234 font]
[-# num]
[-C class]
[-i numcols]
[-J job]
[-P printer]
[-T title]
[-U user]
[-w num]
[name ...] |
lpr
uses a spooling daemon to print the
named files when facilities become available. If no names appear, the
standard input is assumed.
The following single letter options are used to notify the line printer spooler that the files are not standard text files. The spooling daemon will use the appropriate filters to print the data accordingly.
-c
cifplot
-d
-f
-g
plot
routines (see also
plot
for the filters used by the printer
spooler).-l
-n
-o
-p
print
).-t
-v
These options apply to the handling of the print job:
-h
-m
-P
PRINTER
is used.-q
-r
-s
option).-s
-s
option will use
symlink(2) to link data
files rather than trying to copy them so large files can be printed. This
means the files should not be modified or removed until they have been
printed.Normally lpr
works silently except for
diagnostic messages. The following option changes this behavior.
-R
The remaining options apply to copies, the page display, and headers:
-#
numlpr -#3 foo.c bar.c more.c
cat foo.c bar.c more.c | lpr -#3
will give three copies of the concatenation of the files. Often a site will disable this feature to encourage use of a photocopier instead.
-
[1234
]
font.railmag
file referencing the font pathname.-C
classlpr -C EECS foo.c
causes the system name (the name returned by hostname(1)) to be replaced on the burst page by EECS, and the file foo.c to be printed.
-i
-numcols
-J
job-T
title-U
user-w
numIf the following environment variable exists, it is used by
lpr
:
PRINTER
If you try to spool too large a file, it will be truncated.
lpr
will object to printing binary files. If a user
other than root prints a file and spooling is disabled,
lpr
will print a message saying so and will not put
jobs in the queue. If a connection to
lpd(8) on the local machine
cannot be made, lpr
will say that the daemon cannot
be started. Diagnostics may be printed in the daemon's log file regarding
missing spool files by
lpd(8).
lpq(1), lprm(1), pr(1), symlink(2), printcap(5), lpc(8), lpd(8)
The lpr
command appeared in
3BSD.
Fonts for troff(1)
and tex
reside on the host with the printer. It is
currently not possible to use local font libraries.
January 17, 2006 | NetBSD 10.99 |