on Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:05:30PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:56:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> | i haven't used my printer in a bit, but usually it's just fine. but
> | now, trying to print a letter, i find that some mysterious print queue
> | appears to be full. i /etc/init.d restart lpd several times, making
> | sure there are no zombies; i lprm *; yet whenever i turn on the
> ^^^^^^
> Not going to work. Things like '*' are shell metacharacters. This
> means the _shell_ is the one that handles expanding them into their
> actual meaning. Thus "lprm *" in a directory containing files foo
> and bar is the same as typing "lprm foo bar". Unless print jobs
> with ids "foo" and "bar" exist, that doesn't do what you meant.
> Instead, type 'lpstat' (or 'lpq') and see what job ids exist. Then
> 'lprm' those particular ids. If you want to get fancy, then you
> could devise a pipe from lpq to lprm which would remove all jobs
> automatically.
good point -- but i was abbreviating, and forgot that the shell '*'
didn't expand in that context.
lpq is totally empty, but still it prints garbage.
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