[cups-devel] lpmove -U username src dest?

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed May 25 13:08:57 PDT 2016


Mario,

Currently lpmove does not support the -U option, despite what the man page says.  This is being tracked as Pull Request #4822:

    https://github.com/apple/cups/pull/4822

What you *can* do, however, is:

    CUPS_USER=foo lpmove ...

to override the default username in CUPS 1.6 or later.


> On May 25, 2016, at 3:40 PM, Mario Goppold <ml at goppold.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> the "man lpmove" offers an Option "-U username" but from cups-1.5.4
> (maybe earlier) up to cups-2.1.3 quit this with:
> 
>    lpmove: Unknown option "U".
> 
> 
> man lpmove:
> ...
>       The lpmove command supports the following options:
> 
> ...
>       -U username
>            Specifies an alternate username.
> 
> 
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
>    lpadmin -p TEST -v file:///tmp/TEST -E
>    cupsdisable TEST
>    lp -d TEST /etc/hosts
>    request id is TEST-3 (1 file(s))
>    lpstat -o
>    TEST-1                 mario          2048   Wed May 25 21:14:48 2016
>    lpmove -U tester TEST-1 TEST
>    lpmove: Unknown option "U".
> 
> 
> Is the man page incorrect? I hope not, I need today exactly this.
> 
> best regards
> Mario
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer




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