Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:33:54 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpr Job Name Message-ID: <20020913083354.GN45289@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <p05111702b9a6f1c5a0ef@[128.113.24.47]> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209121826280.47166-100000@wonkity.com> <p05111702b9a6f1c5a0ef@[128.113.24.47]>
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# drosih@rpi.edu / 2002-09-12 22:21:26 -0400:
> At 6:37 PM -0600 9/12/02, Warren Block wrote:
> >On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > A simple and mindless workaround would be to:
> >> someprog | cat > /tmp/$USER/NameIWant
> >> lpr -r -Pblah /tmp/$USER/NameIWant
> >
> >Well, yes, although in a couple of newsgroups I think that would be
> >nominated for a "useless use of cat". 8-)
>
> Well, later I mentioned that "I wrote it that way, so you can see
> that it's easy to make it a script". That's what the 'cat' is for.
> You would put the 'cat' into the script, so that you can use the
> script exactly as you would use the lpr command...
actually, that snippet is a UUCA nominee because the cat there is
completely useless. someprog > /tmp/$USER/NameIWant would work just
as well.
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