Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Using Basic Print Commands

Using Basic Print Commands

After configuring your printer, you can print from the desktop, using any printer-capable graphical clients. If you do not use the desktop but prefer to use or access your Fedora system via a text-based interface, you can enter a number of print commands from the command line, too. The main CUPS commands used to print and control printing from the command line are as follows:

? lp — The line-printer spooling command; used to print documents that use a specific printer

? lpq — The line-printer queue display command; used to view the existing list of documents waiting to be printed

? lpstat — Displays server and printer status information

? lprm — The line-printer queue management command; used to remove print jobs from a printer's queue

? lpc — The line-printer control program; used by the root operator to manage print spooling, the lpd daemon, and printer activity

These commands offer a subset of the features provided by CUPS, but can be used to start and control printers and print queues from the command line.

You print files (documents or images) by using the lp command, along with a designated printer and filename. For example, to print the file mydoc.txt with the printer named lp, use the lp command, its -d command-line option, and the printer's name, like this:

# lp -dlp mydoc.txt

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