[cups] programmatically obtain connection

[Boncek, John]

Yes, that will work.  Thank you!
John

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From: cups-bounces at cups.org [mailto:cups-bounces at cups.org] On Behalf Of Brendan Dailey
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 4:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [cups] programmatically obtain connection

Hi John -

I believe the following should accomplish what you need:
lpstat -v <printer name>

You could also run `lpstat -p` to give you a list of printers that are defined.

Hope that's helpful!
-Brendan

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Boncek, John <jboncek at hunter.com> wrote:

> Using CUPS 1.7.2 under Ubuntu 14.04 at http://localhost:631, the 
> Printers page shows a list of available printers.  When you click one, 
> it shows various information about that printer, including 
> "Connection", with values like "socket:10.2..." or "usb://HP/..."  How 
> can I programmatically get that information for a printer?  I've 
> looked thru the CUPS API but can't see any way to do so.  I know how 
> to get a list of destinations but that doesn't contain this 
> information as far as I can see.  Thanks for any help you can provide.  
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