[cups.general] bulk/batch printing using CUPS

[Bernd Krumböck]

Hi Jerome!


If lp doesn't accept so many arguments then it will be a better idea to use
"xargs" or "find".

At least it will be more robust, when one of the postscript files is
corrupt. Also "cat *.ps" depends on the command line buffer limit.


Following command can workaround this limit:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.ps" -exec lp -dprinter {} \;

(Sadly maxdepth is only supported by GNU find)


If lp itself has a limit (but I don't think) then xargs can be used to split
up the arguments:

ls *.ps | xargs -n 10 lp


best regards!
Bernd