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cancel Options and Arguments

cancel recognizes the following options and arguments, which can be speciﬁed in any order. Blanks are

not permitted between a keyletter and its argument. When cancel is used with a mix of different options

and arguments, it will operate ﬁrst on id ..., next on dest ..., next on

-a, next on -e and ﬁnally on

-u,

irrespective of the order in which the options and arguments are speciﬁed in the command line.

id ... Speciﬁes one or more requests to be canceled. id is a request

ID returned by lp or

lpalt.

dest ... Speciﬁes one or more printers or printer classes. If a

-a, -e,or-u option is not

speciﬁed, cancel the request that is currently printing on each dest. In this case, dest

must be a printer, not a class. If a

-a, -e,or-u option is speciﬁed, specify the destina-

tion on which to perform the corresponding cancel operation. In this case, dest can be a

printer or a class.

-a Remove all requests the user owns on each dest ,orifdest is not speciﬁed and

-f option

is speciﬁed, remove all requests the user owns on all destinations in the system. The

owner of a request is determined by the user’s login name and the host name of the

machine where the

lp command was invoked.

-e Empty the spool queue of each dest ,orifdest is not speciﬁed and

-f option is speciﬁed,

empty the spool queue of all destinations in the system. Only users with appropriate

privileges can use this option.

-i Cancel only local requests.

-uuser Remove all requests belonging to user on each dest ,orifdest is not speciﬁed and

-f

option is speciﬁed, remove all requests belonging to user on all destinations in the sys-

tem. You can repeat the -u option to specify more users. Only users with appropriate

privileges can use this option.

-f Force cancel -a/-e/-u to act on all destinations in the system.

Printing Overview

A printer can print requests from one or two destination queues: its own private queue and an optional

class queue, which can serve one or more printers. The destination queues are set up with the

lpadmin

command. The lp command places a printing request into a printer or class destination queue as

directed by a user. The lpsched scheduler directs the requests from the destination queues to the

printers. The accept and reject commands control whether lp can place requests in the destination

queues. The enable and disable commands control whether lpsched can send a queued request to

a printer. If a printer has two queues and one queue is rejecting requests, users can still direct requests

to the other destination queue and have the requests printed. lpstat reports the current status of the

destination queues and the scheduler. See enable (1), lpstat (1), accept (1M), and lpadmin (1M).

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LANG determines the locale to use for the locale categories when both LC_ALL and the corresponding

environment variable (beginning with LC_) do not specify a locale. If LANG is not set or is set to the

empty string, a default of "C" (see lang (5)) is used.

LC_ALL determines the locale to use to override any values for locale categories speciﬁed by the setting

of LANG or any environment variables beginning with LC_.

LC_CTYPE determines the locale for interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (e.g.,

single- verses multibyte characters in arguments and input ﬁles).

LC_MESSAGES determines the language in which messages are displayed.

LPDEST determines the output device or destination. If the LPDEST environment variable is not set,

the PRINTER environment variable is used. The -d dest option takes precedence over LPDEST.

PRINTER determines the output device or destination. If the LPDEST and PRINTER environment vari-

ables are not set, the default queue is used. The -d dest option and the LPDEST environment variable

takes precedence over PRINTER.

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, the commands behave as if all interna-

tionalization variables are set to "C". See environ (5).

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