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lp, cancel - Sends or cancels a printing request
lp [-cmsw] [-A options] [-o option] [-d printer] [-n copies] [-t title] [file...]
cancel [request_ID...] printer...
cancel request_ID... [printer...]
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
lp: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX
cancel: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX
Refer to the
standards(5)
reference page for more information
about industry standards and associated tags.
[XPG4-UNIX] Options for the lp command can appear in any order and can be mixed with filenames.
[XPG4-UNIX] The
cancel
command has
no options.
[Compaq] Specifies one or more country-specific options.
See
lpr(1)
for details about these options.
[XPG4-UNIX] Makes copies of the files to be
printed immediately when
lp
is invoked. Normally, files
are not copied, but are linked whenever possible. If the
-c
option is not given, be careful not to remove any of the files before the
request is finished printing. Note also that in the absence of the
-c
option any changes made to the named files after the request is
made, but before it is printed, are reflected in the printed output.
[XPG4-UNIX] Selects
printer
as the device to do the printing (also known as the printing
destination). Under certain conditions (printer unavailability,
file space limitations, and so on), requests for specific destinations cannot
be accepted. By default,
printer
is taken from
the
LPDEST
environment variable
if it is set. Otherwise, the
PRINTER
environment variable or a default destination, if one exists, for the system
is used. Destination names vary between systems. (See the
lpq(1)
and
lpstat(1)
reference pages.)
[XPG4-UNIX] Sends mail (see the
mailx(1)
reference page) after the files are printed. By default, no mail is sent
upon normal completion of the print request.
[XPG4-UNIX] Prints
number
copies (default of 1).
[XPG4-UNIX] This option is recognized as valid
option by the command-line parser, but is not supported on a Tru64 UNIX
system. On other systems, multiple
-o
options can be used
to specify printer-dependent or class-dependent options.
[XPG4-UNIX] Suppresses messages from
lp, such as ``request id is ...''.
[XPG4-UNIX] Prints
title
on the banner page of the output.
[XPG4-UNIX] Functions like
-m
(for compatibility reasons).
[XPG4-UNIX] Specifies one or more files to
be printed.
[XPG4-UNIX] Cancel the request with the request
ID.
[XPG4-UNIX] Cancel all requests made by you
with that printer as the destination.
[XPG4-UNIX] The lp command sends the specified files and associated information (collectively called a request) to a line printer for printing. The cancel command cancels printing requests.
[XPG4-UNIX] The lp command associates a unique ID with each request and prints it on the standard output. If you do not specify a file, or specify a - (dash) in place of a file, lp accepts standard input at this point in the list of files.
[XPG4-UNIX] The cancel command cancels printer requests made by the lp or lpr command (see lpr(1)). You can specify either request_ID, to cancel the request with that request ID, or printer, to cancel all requests made by you with that printer as the destination. (If you are operating with superuser authority, all requests to that printer are canceled, including those of other users.) A specified request is canceled even if it is currently printing, and the printer is freed to print the next available request.
[XPG4-UNIX] You can also use the request ID to find
the status of the request. (See the
lpq(1)
and
lpstat(1)
reference
pages.)
[XPG4-UNIX] The following exit values are returned by
both the cancel and lp commands:
[XPG4-UNIX] Successful completion.
[XPG4-UNIX] An error occurred.
The following environment variables affect the execution of
lp
and
cancel:
[XPG4-UNIX] Provides a default value for the
internationalization variables that are unset or null. If
LANG
is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default
locale is used. If any of the internationalization variables contain an invalid
setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined.
[XPG4-UNIX] If set to a non-empty string value,
overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables.
[XPG4-UNIX] Determines the locale for the
interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example,
single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
[XPG4-UNIX] Determines the locale for the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
[XPG4-UNIX] Determines the format of date
and time strings displayed in the banner.
[XPG4-UNIX] Determines the output device destination
if the
-d
option is not used with the
lp
command.
[XPG4-UNIX] Determines the location of message
catalogues for the processing of
LC_MESSAGES.
Determines the output device destination if the
-d
option is not used with
lp
command and the
LPDEST
environment variable is not set.
Printer description file
Spool directories
Daemon control files
Data files specified in
cf
files
Temporary copies of
cf
files
Minimum free space to leave
Line printer devices
Socket for local requests
Commands: lpc(8), lpd(8), lpq(1), lpr(1), lprm(1), lpstat(1), mailx(1)
Others: i18n_printing(5)
Standards: standards(5)