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Feljav
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Printers

How can I remove all jobs in the print queue?
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A. Clay Stephenson
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Re: Printers

Use the cancel command.
If it ain't broke, I can fix that.
Feljav
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Re: Printers

Cancel command only remove one job in the queue. Are there another command?
Dennis Handly
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Re: Printers

>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
A. Clay Stephenson
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... 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.
If it ain't broke, I can fix that.
Rory R Hammond
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Re: Printers

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
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