print to file

[Chris Watson]

I have created a dumb printer and have been trying to modify the script to output to a file instead of a real printer.

The line in the original script that appears to finally talk to the printer is;

cat "$file" 2>&1

Whilst a little bit unclear on the 'reaction' to this cat, it must be being piped upstream, I had hoped that simply modifying the line to do a suitable 'cp' would do the trick.

Having tried a few different things, can someone now give me the answer?

Thanks,
CW

[Peter Godron]

Chris,
can you confirm:
1. The script currently prints to a printer
2. Where is the printer defined as the output

Can you just run the script( with all the required parameters) and redirect the data?
i.e.
script.sh par1 par2 > file.txt 2>&1

Regards

[Peter Godron]

Chris,
any update on this?
if the the problem is resolved, could you please close the thread?
Thanks

[Peter Godron]

Chris,
is this problem resolved? If it is please enter the solution and close.
If it is not fixed can you please update.

[Chris Watson]

I decided to create a pipe and print to that, then created a listening to drop it into the filesystem.

[Chris Watson]

close