ARCHIVED: In Unix, how do I print a file to my local printer?
In Unix, you can use a utility called ansiprt
in a pipe
to print to your local printer. It wraps its input with the
ANSI media-copy escape codes and spits it back out,
trusting your terminal to behave correctly. You can use
ansiprt
to print any text files to your local printer by
entering at the Unix prompt:
cat myfile | ansiprt
Replace myfile
with the name of the file you want to
print.
If you are using a Unix host that does not have the ansiprt
program, you can create a copy from the Perl script that follows.
Save this text to a file named ansiprt
in a directory named
bin
in your home directory (so that the full filename is
~/bin/ansiprt
).
#!/usr/local/bin/perl # ansiprint - print file/stdin to local printer via ANSI codes # (c)1994 Scott Hutton, Indiana University, UITS Support Center # usage: ansiprint [filename [filename ...]] @input = <>; $lines = @input; warn "Turning on printer...\n"; print "\033[5i", @input, "\033[4i\n"; warn "Turned off printer. Output $lines lines.\n";
Once you've created a copy of the script, be sure to set the file permissions by entering at the Unix prompt:
chmod 755 ~/bin/ansiprt
Note: Creating a copy of the ansiprt
script in this manner won't work on Unix systems that do not have Perl
installed.
At Indiana University, for personal or departmental Linux or Unix systems support, see Get help for Linux or Unix at IU.
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Last modified on 2018-01-18 10:47:08.