RE: [TCLUG:7538] printing (lpr/lpd?) problems

[Unni Nambiar <unambiar@Legato.COM>]

A little shorter version.

cat <filename> | sed 's/^L$//g' | lp (or lpr, whichever)

The ^L$ matches with ^L at end of line.

You can put this in a file or an alias, though i just couldn't get the alias
to work on my csh.  Somehow alias doesn't let me put the quotes that sed
needs.

-Unni

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Patten [mailto:cpatte@trimodalinc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 4:29 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: RE: [TCLUG:7538] printing (lpr/lpd?) problems
> 
> 
> >
> >         if I could get it to print to a file; I suppose I 
> could try to
> > kludge a sed script to remove the annoying ^L character at 
> the end, then
> > print it. this is a bit beyond my understanding, tho...
> >
> 
> sed -e "s/^L//g" file1.txt > file2.txt
> 
> This will remove all the ^L characters from the print job.  
> If you only want
> to remove the one at the end of the print job, the following 
> command will
> cut off the last line:
> 
> tmpvar=`cat file1.txt|wc -l`; head -n `expr $tmpvar - 1` file1.txt >
> file2.txt
> 
> Disclaimer: There are a gazillion people out there who know 
> more about shell
> programming than I do and are probably wincing at the inelegance of my
> examples.  Nonetheless these should be enough to get you started.
> 
> --
> Carl Patten
> Systems Administrator
> Trimodal Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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