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
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