[cups] Bash Command for List of Jobs

[Michael Sweet]

Guy,

It comes from the "job-name" attribute.  What's strange is that lpstat asks for this attribute but never does anything with it...


> On Jan 10, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Guy Wickenden <guy.wickenden at equator-design.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> Thank you for your reply, job name is what I was looking for when I said file name :) When I run:
> 
> lpstat -l -W completed -o
> 
> I get results that look like this:
> 
> Xerox560_2-3            guywickenden     74752   Fri 21 Nov 15:05:05 2014
> 	Status: 
> 	Alerts: job-canceled-by-user
> 	queued for HP_LaserJet_P1006
> 
> Which sadly doesn’t contain the job name? When I look at:
> 
> http://localhost:631/jobs?which_jobs=completed <http://localhost:631/jobs?which_jobs=completed>
> 
> The job name is there, so I suppose I am wondering where on earth the web server picks that data up from?
> 
> Cheers folks! :)
> Guy
> 
>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 16:58, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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