On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:40, you wrote: > On 13/12/05, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > >Possible, but that gives you zero control over the formatting and > > > >positioning of the text on paper. If you want any control, use the > > > >system's print system. > > > > > > Hmm? How about ls -lR | enscript -2 > > > > That's not piping the output of ls straight to the printer, that's > > creating formatted postscript for previewing and printing. What I > > should have said was "If you want any control, either pipe ls into > > something which produces postscript, or use the printing system, eg ls > > | kprinter." > > ls | kprinter > is my preference. > I tried it just now - kprinter said my printer doesn't support plain > text and would I like to convert to postscript? I said yes and it > printed fine, but each filename on a single line. the ls command on > its own doesn't do that in konsole. > > Also, I didn't see a page preview button in kprinter. That would be a > nice feature. > > I think if I needed to format it, I would use Robert's original method > of saving the output to a file.
Nice! I just stumbled upon cupsdoprint: cupsdoprint -P HP myfile.txt HP is the name of my printer in the CUPS control panel (didn't seem to work without that- you'd think it would pick up the default printer). Andy
