Using CUPS as queue for bash scripts

[Helge Blischke]

Oleg Volkov wrote:

> Hi, All
> 
> A long time ago I've used an AIX printing system for sending jobs
> (batches) to job queue. In that example, there was a license limitation to
> not use particular software more than 4 sessions simultaneously. As a
> solution, 4 "job" printers was defined for the same print queue, and all
> jobs were sent to it.
> 
> Now, I have a similar task, but limited by hardware, Only one job can use
> this peace of hardware, but jobs will comes asynchronous from different
> sources without any locking mechanism. A concurrent job will fail.
> 
> I am wonder, if there is possible to define such "job" printer using CUPS
> ?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> --
> Oleg

Yes, it is. You may easily write a (bash-, Perl-, Python- or whatever) 
script which runs the jobs and waits for completion.

Helge