Matt,
Matt Payton wrote:
> I want to set up a printer that will dump the output to a file. This is
> easy enough...lp=/path/to/my/file. The data is strictly text, with no
> special formatting or characters. This works. However, each time the
> output is sent to the file it is appended...I'd like the file to be
> overwritten each time, so the contents are only from the latest job.
>
> I've tried various incantations of if=, filter=, etc. But no luck so far.
> Is there any way to get this to work automagically ?
Try using a wrapper script for if=. Here's a very simple script I wrote. It's
called 'fcat'. Just include it in the printcap:
test:\
:sever:\
:sh:\
:if=/some/full/path/fcat:\
...etc
Here's the little script (mode 0555):
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: fcat,v 1.1 2001/06/26 14:10:15 root Exp $
set -x
exec 1>trace 2>&1
#
trap 'echo $* ; exit ${status}' 0
printer=`expr "$6" : '-.\(.*\)'`
file=output
/bin/cat > ${file}
status=$?
It leaves all args in a file called 'trace' and the printjob in 'output'
in the spooldirectory.
Hope this helps.
--
Henk Roose - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CWI - Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
Amsterdam (NL)
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