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From: Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:04:39 +0100
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On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:00, Rob Keeling wrote:
> So, if I could take the output from lpstat -a, discard everything
> after the first space, to give a list of printer names,
> and then run cancel -a for each name I would be in buissness. However,
> I don`t know how to go about it.

lpstat -a | cut -d ' ' -f 1 - | xargs -l1 cancel -a

Cheers,

Alex.


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