Fantastic! That does it. Many thanks.
— Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>
> I found this, which lets you see all devices connected to USB:
>
> ioreg -p IOUSB -w0 | sed 's/[^o]*o //; s/@.*$//' | grep -v
I found this, which lets you see all devices connected to USB:
ioreg -p IOUSB -w0 | sed 's/[^o]*o //; s/@.*$//' | grep -v '^Root.*'
> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
>
>> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>>
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> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> Interesting. If it returns zombie printers, its not exactly helpful.
Right. I need a way of detecting which printer is currently connected via USB.
Any other ideas?
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Colin Holgate
Interesting. If it returns zombie printers, its not exactly helpful.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Colin Holgate
wrote:
> Was curious what that does. For me it returns a list of all the printers
> my Mac has seen in the last few years, and currently I have no active
Was curious what that does. For me it returns a list of all the printers my Mac
has seen in the last few years, and currently I have no active printers on my
network at home.
> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> does-- lpstat -p give the info you need?
does-- lpstat -p give the info you need? (from shell)
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
> Anyone know how to get a listing of the currently connected printer on a
> Mac? I used to do this on my (very) old MacBook via a shell call:
> put shell("ioreg")