Re: [TCLUG:7930] lpr/lpd/OSAS problems continued...

[^chewie <chewie@guinness.urw.org>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> how would I write a sed script to chop off the ^L character (if it
> exists) at the end of a file, then send the file to lpr? (haven't
> had much luck making heads or tails of the sed man page) (yes I
> know perl/awk/python will do it too; but isn't sed the
> smallest/fastest one?)
> 
> then how do I invoke the sed script? instead of '> lpr -P hp4v 2>/dev/null',
> would i use '>sed script.sed 2>/dev/null'?

You would create a printcap entry that has an "if=<script path>" entry
in it.  The script would need to redirect output to stdout.

Later!

    ^chewie

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