[cups] Query queue Location/Description from command-line?

[Jörg Thümmler]

Am 29.03.23 um 10:09 schrieb Johannes Meixner:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On 2023-03-29 07:37, Jörg Thümmler wrote (excerpts):
> 
>> some linuxes (suse e.g.) have their own APIs to manage printers
> 
> as far as I know we (i.e. SUSE) don't have such own APIs.
> 
> In particular the YaST printer module is basically
> only a frontend for CUPS command line tools.
> 
> 
>> enable people to maintain printers
> 
> In general see the section
> "Allow printer admin tasks for a normal user"
> in
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
> 
> This article became meanwhile rather old
> so some specific information could be outdated
> but the general information should be still true.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner

OK, so yast's printer manage tool is no API but some kind of wrapper... 
but lurking into this could be even more useful when you want to manage 
things yourself... (I believe sources of yast are open?)
...

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jth