Unfortunately, the CUPS developers - if there indeed are any - do not give a shit. The command line tools are brain dead by design, the documentation is inaccurate, there are essentially no error checking or reporting, and it has been this way since the inception.
Here's a bug from 2006 - guess what, this is still the status quo in Ubuntu 12.10, over six years later: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381252 Command line printing isn't a priority in Ubuntu, nor is difficult corner cases, like specifying a username. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #381252 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381252 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728350 Title: man lpstat: wrong information about running without arguments To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/728350/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
