Printing through UUCP
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at mtndew.Tustin.CA.US
Mon Dec 24 06:24:06 AEST 1990
Greg Woods posts the source to an lp interface script to let one printer
server multiple machines, but a bug caught my eye. This appears in all the
lp interfaces I've seen, so this is by no means picking on Greg.
PRINTER=`basename $0`
TITLE=$3
COPIES=$4
OPTIONS=$5
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
files="$*"
for F in $files
do
FILES="$FILES !$F"
done
The problem with this is that filenames with spaces in them can't get
printed because the assignment of "$*" to "$files" causes the notion of
the separate args to be lost. The right way to do this is:
PRINTER=`basename $0`
TITLE=$3
COPIES=$4
OPTIONS=$5
shift 5;
for F in "$@" # <-- this expands things right
do
FILES="$FILES !$F"
done
Now you can print a file with spaces in them.
Steve
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Why not add Hollerith fields to printf()?
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