My original questin was
Hello gurus
How can i find the spooler directory of a printer with a shell script or
command .
Thans a lot
thanks to Alan Angulo [alan_at_esu.edu] who gave me correct perl script that I
want
#!/usr/bin/perl
$printer=$ARGV[0];
open(PRINTER,"</etc/printcap");
while($line=<PRINTER>){
if ($line =~ /^$printer[:\|]/) {
while($line=<PRINTER>){
chomp($line);
if ($line =~ /:sd/) {
print substr($line,(index($line,"sd:")+6),length($line)-7);
print("\n");
close PRINTER;
exit
}
}
}
close printer
}
also thanks
Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646 [tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com]
ROBIN Jean-Marie (EURIWARE S.A.) [jmrobin_at_euriware.fr]
Tru64 User [tru64user_at_yahoo.com]
Hasan Atasoy
Sistem İletişim Müdürlüğü
E-mail : hatasoy_at_ifk.com.tr
Tel : +90 212 454 1362
Gsm : +90 532 284 3959
Received on Thu Nov 23 2000 - 09:26:48 NZDT