HP Distributed Print Service User's Guide

• Double quotation marks, " ", surround text strings that contain

spaces, such as:

-m "Down for maintenance"

• Single quotation marks, ' ' , surround a text string that contains

spaces when the text string is imbedded in a statement already

enclosed in double quotation marks. An example is:

-x "sides=2 job-print-after='08:00:00 03/09/95'"

• Braces, {}, surround a value within the notification-profile

attribute. An example is:

-x "notification-profile={delivery-method=electronic-mail}"

• Double ampersand, &&, means "and" within a command. An example

is:

pdls -U -f "user-name=*fljones && \

printer-name-requested==LogPrt1" Spool1:

• Double vertical bar, ||, means "or" within a command. An example is:

pdls -U -r brief,job-state-reasons -s column \

-f "current-job-state==retained \

|| current-job-state==timed-out" \

Spool2:

• Asterisks and equal signs are used to match strings. For example:

"job owner=*Jones" initial string match

"job-owner*=*one" any substring match

"job-owner*=nes" ﬁnal string match

Using Abbreviations

for Attribute Names

and Values

In many cases, you can abbreviate attribute names and values by using

the ﬁrst letter of each word in the name or value. For example, you can

use the abbreviation s-m-s for the start-message-supported

attribute, t for the true value, and specify the attribute and value pair

as s-m-s=t.

However, in some cases specifying only the ﬁrst letter in each word can

be ambiguous, as for the attributes job-owner and job-originator.

In these cases, specify enough of the name so that is unique, as in j-ow

and j-or. If the values are ambiguous, HPDPS rejects the command and

you receive an error message. Use abbreviated attribute names and

values as appropriate.