topic Re: Printers in Operating System - HP-UX

Printers

Feljav — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:19:44 GMT

How can I remove all jobs in the print queue?

Re: Printers

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:28:34 GMT

Use the cancel command.

Re: Printers

Feljav — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:32:21 GMT

Cancel command only remove one job in the queue. Are there another command?

Re: Printers

Dennis Handly — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:49:47 GMT

>Cancel command only remove one job in the queue.

cancel(1) says you can use -e to empty the queue on each dest:
# cancel dest -e

Re: Printers

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:58:13 GMT

... and even on those flavors of UNIX that don't support cancel -e, it is trivially easy to write a script that captures the output of lpstat and then issues a cancel command for each job.

Re: Printers

Rory R Hammond — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:17:00 GMT

At times I have found that cancel the whole
queue at once has hung the spooler, stopping all print jobs for an extended time. I preferred canceling one a time.

Want to cancel reportprinter jobs

for arg in $(lpstat -oreportprinter |grep priority|cut -f1 -d" ")
do
cancel ${arg}
done