On Monday 12 May 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> But, this command line, which outputs to the screen very nicely if the >> pipe and the rest of the line are removed, seems to send the data to >> /dev/null: >> >> #>cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 > >Try something like: >cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 - >or >cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -- - > Either of those give this: [root@coyote ~]# cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 - lpr: Error - unknown option ' ^C [root@coyote ~]# cat /dev/ttyUSB1 | lpr -Plp1 -- - lpr: Error - unknown option '-'! Thanks. > From the lp man page: >lp submits files for printing or alters a pending job. Use a >filename of "-" to force printing from the standard input. > >Mikkel -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I've got a very bad feeling about this. -- Han Solo -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
