On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:26:08PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: | 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. It does. For example : $ echo 'Hello World!' | tee /tmp/A_File | lp | > 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 | tee /tmp/listing | lp -D -- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27 www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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