On Tue 21 Jun 2016 at 22:24:29 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>
> > But it will give you something to do for the
> > rest of the afternoon!
>
> I wrote this to automatize it:
To automatise what? Was the suggestion given not clear enough or too
involved?
> # try all PPDs on the system:
There is no point in this.
> #
> # $ test-ppd **/*.ppd
> #
> # and, in another pane:
> #
> # $ watch -t -n 0.1 lpstat -p
> test-ppd () {
> local -a ppds
> ppds=($@)
>
> local test_file=~/TEST-TEXT-FILE
> local printer=laser
>
> for p in $ppds; do
> sudo lpadmin -p $printer -E -P $p
> doprint $test_file
> sleep 7
> done
> } # [1]
>
> How does that differ from what you describe?
> Is the above enough to find out?
>
> [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/.zsh/printers
I have no wish to discuss alternatives. Let's leave it like that at this
point. If you wish to use this to find out something, please go ahead.
