lp.1 (2010 09)

lp(1) lp(1)

International Code Set Support

Single- and multibyte character code sets are supported.

RETURN VALUE

Exit values are:

0 Successful completion.

>0 Error condition occurred.

EXAMPLES

For a laserjet printer named

lp2, conﬁgured with an interface script that deﬁnes the -c option to cause

the printer to print in a compressed mode, use the following command to print

myfile with compressed

print on

lp2:

lp -dlp2 -oc myfile

lp can be used at the end of a pipeline to print the results of a previous command. It is commonly used

with the pr command (see pr(1)) to print formatted output. For a default printer, to format ﬁle

.pro-

file into pages and print three copies of it:

pr .profile | lp -n3

WARNINGS

A remote print request can be canceled only from the system from which the the original lp

command

was issued, and if the restrict cancel feature (see lpadmin (1M)) is enabled for the speciﬁed printer, a

request belonging to this printer can be canceled only by administrator or the user who requested it.

A remote print request can be altered only from the system from which the the original

command was

issued, and only by administrator or the user who requested it. The remote system will ignore this alter

request if the request is being printed.

For a remote system,

lpalt cannot change dest and priority .

The information on destination queues and print requests are maintained in

pstatus, qstatus and

outputq ﬁles under /var/spool/lp

directory. These ﬁles should not be directly read by any applica-

tion other than the LP subsystem, because the format of data stored in these ﬁles may change in future.

FILES

/etc/lp Directory of spooler conﬁguration data

/etc/lp/interface

Directory of active LP device interface scripts

/usr/lib/lp Directory of model and font ﬁle directories

/var/adm/lp Directory of spooler log ﬁles

/var/spool/lp Directory of LP spooling ﬁles and directories