printing a file from cron using cups and/or lpd

[Greg Rundlett]

Casey Callendrello wrote:

> kprinter has a commandline mode that works  much like LPD and should 
> solve your problems.  The command switch --nodialog does just what it 
> says and makes it act like lpd.  Just open a terminal and run kprinter 
> --help and it should explain everything you need.  Your probable 
> solution will go something like this:
> kprinter -d <printername> --nodialog filename.ps
>
> also note that the --stdin argument will let you print from stdin.
>
Thanks Casey,
That's what I originally thought, but when I Googled for something like 
Kprinter Cups +"print from shell" or something along those lines, I 
couldn't find anything, so I went off on the wrong tangent.

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