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Canceling print jobs

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Name: Alex
Date: July 19, 1999 at 15:34:48 Pacific
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Is there a way for a user to cancel all of his print jobs with one command that can be entered into a shell script.SCO Unix
Thanks,
Muchas gracias



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Name: Anthony
Date: July 20, 1999 at 05:18:42 Pacific
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Try this :

# Script starts here
cancel `lpstat $1|awk '{print $1}'`
# Script ends here

The first $1 can be the printer name or parameter one on the command line.

Regards,

Anthony.


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