[cups.general] How gets a Filter-Script the Input?

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Feb 3 08:11:02 PST 2009


Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've added for a Printer a filter-script with lpadmin -i filter .....
> But the filter seems to get no input.
> 
> On which way does the filter get his input?
> in that style:
> echo "some input" |filter
> or:
> filter "some input"?
> 
> So: Is the printing-Data piped thru the Filter or is it a Argutent for 
> the Printer?

"man filter"

The first filter (in this case the only one) gets the print filename
in argv[6] ($6 in a shell script).

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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