LP printing to printer and file at same time

[Matt Goodfellow_1]

I have an HP-UX 11.0 system with a remote printer setup at a facility several miles away. I need to capture a copy of the print job as well as have it sent to the printer at the same time. Is there a quick and easy way to do this? The printing is contracted out and we are having issues with the prints being out of order. I need to ensure that the software that is printing is not sending the prints to the remote printer in the incorrect order. Thx in advance.

[TwoProc · Accepted solution]

Run the lp command with a "tee" command. The following will save the output to (and keep appending to it) with each lp command called in the following way:
cat fname | tee -a /tmp/myprintlog | lp -dmyprinter

[Matt Goodfellow_1]

The other issue which I should have mentioned is I cannot modify the code that uses lp to do the printing. I am under very tight change management control and the next time the software can be modified will not be until Sept. I was hoping I could do something outside the application with the printer definition, or /etc/lp/interface. So far I am still looking for a solution. Thanks,

[Alan Meyer_4]

How about supplying an alias for lp or a wrapper script for lp within the local environment that utilizes this script?

[Matt Goodfellow_1]

That is probably what I will end up doing is writing a temporary alias or wrapper that will allow me to do this. Thanks for the responses.

[Matt Goodfellow_1]

Thanks folks