Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:57:31 -0700 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <20111027175731.GD1058@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <15996.1319704110@tristatelogic.com> References: <15996.1319704110@tristatelogic.com>
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Quoth Ronald F. Guilmette on Thursday, 27 October 2011:
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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> #!/bin/sh
>=20
> printer=3D'/dev/ulpt0'
>=20
> if [ $# =3D 0 ]; then
> cat | /usr/local/libexec/psif > $printer
> else
> for arg in $* ; do
> cat $arg | /usr/local/libexec/psif > $printer
> done
> fi
Not to be a pedant (okay, maybe I am), but you could eliminate the
extraneous `cat` in both commands:
#!/bin/sh
printer=3D'/dev/ulpt0'
if [ $# =3D 0 ]; then
/usr/local/libexec/psif > $printer
else
for arg in $* ; do
/usr/local/libexec/psif < $arg > $printer
done
fi
Nice work, though!
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