HP Distributed Print Service User's Guide

Chapter 3 41

Command Reference

Command Syntax

You can enter HPDPS commands using an attribute value pair, a

command-attribute or an object-attribute and its value, with the -x ﬂag,

other command ﬂags, or a combination of the two. More information on

each of these options follows.

Using the -x Flag with Attribute Value Pairs

Both object-attributes and command-attributes have values and can be

entered using the -x ﬂag. Command-attributes modify the action of

commands. See Table 3-5, “Command-Attributes,” for a list of command-

attributes. Object-attributes are characteristics of objects. See “Object-

Attributes” for more information.

When an attribute and a value are entered, the attribute is followed by

the = sign followed by the value; no space is allowed between these three

items unless the items are enclosed in quotes. For example,

class=printer and "class = printer" are equally acceptable

formats. See Table 3-5, “Command-Attributes,” and Table 3-7, “HPDPS

Object-Attributes,” later for more information.

The syntax for using an attribute value pair with the -x ﬂag is:

[ HPDPSCommand [-xAttributeValuePair…] [ Argument…] ]

where

-x precedes the attribute and its value.

AttributeValuePair is a command-attribute or object-

attribute together with its value.

Argument is the object being acted upon. See

“Using Arguments” later for more

information.

For example, to request a listing of attributes for SPOOL1, enter:

pdls -x "class=server request-attributes=all" SPOOL1

The following command yields the same results, but is entered using

command ﬂags, which are described next.

pdls -c server -r all SPOOL1