Printing at the Command Line
While learning to work at the command line, you may have wished on several occasions that you could print the output generated by your commands. Users new to Unix-like operating systems are often surprised to learn that nearly any kind of information can be sent to the printer directly from the command line. In fact, managing printing from the command line is quite easy after a printer has been properly configured. For details on configuring your printer, refer to Chapter 3, “Booting, Logging In, and Configuring.”
Printing any kind of information in Linux requires the creation of a print job. When a print job is created, the data to be printed is queued in a list of pending jobs. The print job at the top of the list ...
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