[CentOS] How to print

[William L. Maltby]

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 10:23 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 5/6/06, centos at 911networks.com <centos at 911networks.com> wrote:
> > How can I print, from the command line, a png file?
> >
> 
> Presuming that you have cups installed in the normal fashion and a
> default printer, just
> 
> cat xxx.png | lpr

BTW, for *any* process like this taht does not handle a file name on a
command line, if not fileter is needed (no concatenation, slicing,
converting...) it is always more efficient to do an I/O redirection.

  lpr <xxx.png

standard shell stuff. I propose we teach "The Right Way" (TM).

> <snip sig>

HTH
-- 
Bill
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