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lp - send files to a printerSynopsis
lp [-c][-ddest][-ncopies][-msw][-ooption].. [-ttitle][file..]
Description
The lp utility shall copy the input files to an output destination in an unspecified manner. The default output destination should be to a hardcopydevice, such as a printer or microfilm recorder, that produces non-volatile, human-readable documents. If such a device is not available to the application, orif the system provides no such device, the lp utility shall exit with a non-zero exit status.
The actual writing to the output device may occur some time after the lp utility successfully exits. During the portion of the writing thatcorresponds to each input file, the implementation shall guarantee exclusive access to the device.
The lp utility shall associate a unique request ID with each request.
Normally, a banner page is produced to separate and identify each print job. This page may be suppressed by implementation-defined conditions, such as anoperator command or one of the -ooption values.
Options
The lp utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following options shall be supported:
- -m
- Send mail (see mailx ) after the files have been printed. By default, no mail is sent upon normal completion of the print request.
- -n copies
- Write copies number of copies of the files, where copies is a positive decimal integer. The methods for producing multiple copies and forarranging the multiple copies when multiple file operands are used are unspecified, except that each file shall be output as an integral whole, notinterleaved with portions of other files.
- -o option
- Specify printer-dependent or class-dependent options. Several such options may be collected by specifying the -o option more thanonce.
- -s
- Suppress messages from lp.
- -t title
- Write title on the banner page of the output.
- -w
- Write a message on the user's terminal after the files have been printed. If the user is not logged in, then mail shall be sent instead.
Operands
The following operand shall be supported:
Stdin
The standard input shall be used only if no file operands are specified, or if a file operand is '-' . See the INPUT FILES section. Power2go 8 with windows 10.
Input Files
The input files shall be text files.
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Environment Variables
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of lp:
- >0
- No output device was available, or an error occurred.
Consequences of Errors
Default.
The following sections are informative.
Application Usage
The pr and fold utilities can be used to achieve reasonable formatting for the implementation's default page size.
A conforming application can use one of the file operands only with the -c option or if the file is publicly readable and guaranteed to beavailable at the time of printing. This is because IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 gives the implementation the freedom to queue up the request for printing at some latertime by a different process that might not be able to access the file.
Examples
This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 is worded such that a 'print job' consisting of multiple input files, possibly in multiple copies, is guaranteed toprint so that any one file is not intermixed with another, but there is no statement that all the files or copies have to print out together.
The -c option may imply a spooling operation, but this is not required. The utility can be implemented to wait until the printer is ready and thenwait until it is finished. Because of that, there is no attempt to define a queuing mechanism (priorities, classes of output, and so on).
On some historical systems, the request ID reported on the STDOUT can be used to later cancel or find the status of a request using utilities not defined inthis volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
Although the historical System V lp and BSD lpr utilities have provided similar functionality, they used different names for the environmentvariable specifying the destination printer. Since the name of the utility here is lp, LPDEST (used by the System V lp utility) was givenprecedence over PRINTER (used by the BSD lpr utility). Since environments of users frequently contain one or the other environment variable, thelp utility is required to recognize both. If this was not done, many applications would send output to unexpected output devices when users moved fromsystem to system.
Some have commented that lp has far too little functionality to make it worthwhile. Requests have proposed additional options or operands or boththat added functionality. The requests included:
Given that a compliant system is not required to even have a printer, placing further restrictions upon the behavior of the printer is not useful. Sincehardcopy format is so application-dependent, it is difficult, if not impossible, to select a reasonable subset of functionality that should be required on allcompliant systems.
The term unspecified is used in this section in lieu of implementation-defined as most known implementations would not be able to makedefinitive statements in their conformance documents; the existence and usage of printers is very dependent on how the system administrator configures eachindividual system.
Since the default destination, device type, queuing mechanisms, and acceptable forms of input are all unspecified, usage guidelines for what a conformingapplication can do are as follows:
Alternatively, the application can arrange its installation in such a way that it requires the system administrator or operator to provide the appropriateinformation on lp options and environment variable values.
At a minimum, having this utility in this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 tells the industry that conforming applications require a means to print output andprovides at least a command name and LPDEST routing mechanism that can be used for discussions between vendors, application writers, and users. The useof 'should' in the DESCRIPTION of lp clearly shows the intent of the standard developers, even if they cannot mandate that all systems (such as laptops)have printers.
This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not specify what the ownership of the process performing the writing to the output device may be. If -c isnot used, it is unspecified whether the process performing the writing to the output device has permission to read file if there are any restrictions inplace on who may read file until after it is printed. Also, if -c is not used, the results of deleting file before it is printed areunspecified.
Future Directions
None.
See Also
mailx