Printing files

For example, to print a file named foo.c one would use the following command:

lpr foo.c

Generally speaking, each lab has a printer that will be your default printer. The name of the printer is the same as the room where it is located. For example, the printer in room ET213 is called et213. If you do not wish to use the default, then you can specify the name of the printer in the lpr command as follows:

lpr -Pet213 foo.c

where et213 is the name of the printer.

• Checking on a print job To check the printer queue use the command lpq. Optionally you can also provide the name of the printer as follows: lpq -Pet213.

• Deleting a print job: Type lprm <id> to remove your printing job from the queue. The <id> is returned when you use the the command lpr to print the file. If you don't have it handy then use the lpq command to find out the <id>.

• Warning: Printing executable files (for example files with names a.out or files with extensions .o or .a) is likely to cause the printer to go berserk as these types of files contain unprintable characters.