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lpq

To check on the progress of your print job or survey the print queues, use lpq.

For example, to show the jobs pending in queue ps4:

% lpq -P ps4

 Queue       Rank  Owner             Job    Size   Time      File(s)
ps4c         1     bplecs@brillig    944    13469  12:42:05  /tmp/lj8100.ps

To check all printer queues, use lpq -a.

See the man page for lpq for more details.



Brad Plecs 2009-09-02