On Friday 30 January 2004 04:59 pm, James Horvath wrote: > Not new to linux per say, but have done almost no shell scripting or > programming with it, so consider me a complete rookie.
There are probably some good shell scripting HOWTOs you could find using Google. > Using lpd, is there a simple way using the command line to send the > output of a process to both a file and a printer at the same time? I believe the "tee" command does something like this - see its man page. > Optionally, how might I go about saving a copy of a print job to file > before it prints (without disabling the print queue itself)? > As an example, if I issue a command like "ls -laF" on a directory ls -laF > dirlist.txt; lpd [options] < dirlist.txt Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]