[ILUG] Printing

[Ken Guest]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:05:39AM +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Karl Carlile wrote:
> 
> >Under BASH does anybody know how I can get it to print a file or a file list. 
> >I have used lpr but to no avail. When I went got a file list under ls -m I  
> >tried to get BASH to print the screen. Again it did not work.
> >If you go to eircom's website you will see the offer on Broadband. 
> >
> >kARL
> >  
> >
> 
> Karl,
> 
> (A) Bash is not a printing tool
> (B) ls -m will print the contents of the current directory to the screen
> Print goes to what is called standard output, this is a device, is some
> cases it is a screen and in some cases it is a printer.
> (C) To print ls -m output to a printer then you need to take the output
> and redirect it
> this is done using a pipe | (on a typical keyboard in .ie it is shift
> the character between the shift key and the Z)
> so ls -m | lp will create a print job, which if all else is equal work,
> however sometimes it does not and that is more to do with your print
> setup than anything else.
> When working correctly it will do it with zero formatting but thats a
> whole different ball game.
> 
> In an earlier message, Niall did suggest you get a book on the basics
> and then you might find it easier to get to grips with more of what you
> are doing, I would concur with this.
> 
> It seems to me you have grabbed a few wrong assumptions and are still
> running with them.
> 

can I suggest you read Paul Dunne's excellent Reading List for the Linux Newbie
http://www.linux.ie/newusers/readinglist/introduction.php
and recommend our own Beginners Linux Guide: http://www.linux.ie/blg/

RUTE ( http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz )is quite good too.

It may help make things more clear :)

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Ken Guest
Irish Linux Users' Group webmaster, www.linux.ie
Mobile: +353 86 8252 141

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