[cups] Bash Command for List of Jobs

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Jan 9 08:58:40 PST 2015


Guy,

There is no way to get the original document filenames unless the job name is set to the filename - "lp" and "lpr" do that, but none of the standard OS X applications do that...

"lpstat -l -W completed -o" will provide a "long" listing of completed jobs, including the job name.


> On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Guy Wickenden <guy.wickenden at equator-design.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> Sorry I know I asked this before but nobody replied :( Is the command I can put into bash that will give me a list of all the prints that have been done on that cups device (my mac in this case) that includes the file names? (I have already turned off the security around usernames).
> 
> Warm Regards and have a wonderful new year! :)
> Guy Wickenden
> 
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