deleting printers

[Jeff Hagstrom]

I have an RP7410, HPUX-11.i. I want to delete all 174 printers without having to do them one at a time thru sam. How can I delete all the printers at once?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Jeff,

If you can get a list of the printers into a text file (perhaps with the lpstat command), all you have to do is:

for PRNTR in `cat printer_list`
do
removequeue -f -q $PRNTR
done


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Jeff,

Or, if it's not an HPPI defined printer, replace the removequeue with

"lpadmin -x$PRNTR"


Pete

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

you can try this,

# for i in `/usr/bin/lpstat -a |awk '{print $1}'`
> do
> lpadmin -x $i
> done

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Geoff Wild]

Remember, spooler must be shut first, so:
lpshut

for i in `ls /etc/lp/interface`
do
lpadmin -x$i
done


No space after -x

Rgds...Geoff

[Mark Ellzey]

Jeff,

I know this is probably after the fact, but you can do this in SAM. Select the first printer, scroll to the last, hold the shift key and select the last printer. Under 'Actions', select 'Remove'. All selected printers will be removed.

Regards,
Mark