Printers

[Feljav]

How can I remove all jobs in the print queue?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Use the cancel command.

[Feljav]

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

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>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]

... 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.

[Rory R Hammond]

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