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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)lpr.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 32.\" 33.Dd $Mdocdate: February 8 2020 $ 34.Dt LPR 1 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm lpr 38.Nd off line print 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm lpr 41.Bk -words 42.Op Fl cdfghlmnpqrstv 43.Op Fl # Ns Ar num 44.Op Fl 1234 Ar font 45.Op Fl C Ar class 46.Op Fl i Op Ar numcols 47.Op Fl J Ar job 48.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 49.Op Fl T Ar title 50.Op Fl U Ar user 51.Op Fl w Ns Ar num 52.Op Ar name ... 53.Ek 54.Sh DESCRIPTION 55.Nm lpr 56uses a spooling daemon to print the named files when facilities 57become available. 58If no names appear, the standard input is assumed. 59.Pp 60The following single letter options are used to notify the line printer 61spooler that the files are not standard text files. 62The spooling daemon will 63use the appropriate filters to print the data accordingly. 64.Bl -tag -width indent 65.It Fl c 66The files are assumed to contain data produced by 67.Ic cifplot . 68.It Fl d 69The files are assumed to contain data from 70.Em tex 71.Pf ( Tn DVI 72format from Stanford). 73.It Fl f 74Use a filter which interprets the first character of each line as a 75standard 76.Tn FORTRAN 77carriage control character. 78.It Fl g 79The files are assumed to contain standard plot data as produced by the 80.Ic plot 81routines. 82.It Fl l 83Use a filter which allows control characters to be printed and suppresses 84page breaks. 85.It Fl n 86The files are assumed to contain data from 87.Em ditroff 88(device independent troff). 89.It Fl p 90Use 91.Xr pr 1 92to format the files. 93.It Fl t 94The files are assumed to contain data from 95troff (cat phototypesetter commands). 96.It Fl v 97The files are assumed to contain a raster image for devices like the 98Benson Varian. 99.El 100.Pp 101These options apply to the handling of 102the print job: 103.Bl -tag -width indent 104.It Fl h 105Suppress the printing of the burst page. 106.It Fl m 107Send mail upon completion. 108.It Fl P Ns Ar printer 109Force output to a specific printer. 110Normally, the default printer is used (site dependent), or the value of the 111environment variable 112.Ev PRINTER 113is used. 114.It Fl q 115Queue the print job but do not start the spooling daemon. 116.It Fl r 117Remove the file upon completion of spooling or upon completion of 118printing (with the 119.Fl s 120option). 121.It Fl s 122Use symbolic links. 123Usually files are copied to the spool directory. 124The 125.Fl s 126option will use 127.Xr symlink 2 128to link data files rather than trying to copy them so large files can be 129printed. 130This means the files should 131not be modified or removed until they have been printed. 132.El 133.Pp 134The remaining options apply to copies, the page display, and headers: 135.Bl -tag -width indent 136.It Fl # Ns Ar num 137The quantity 138.Ar num 139is the number of copies desired of each file named. 140For example, 141.Bd -literal -offset indent 142$ lpr -#3 foo.c bar.c more.c 143.Ed 144.Pp 145would result in 3 copies of the file foo.c, followed by 3 copies 146of the file bar.c, etc. 147On the other hand, 148.Bd -literal -offset indent 149$ cat foo.c bar.c more.c | lpr -#3 150.Ed 151.Pp 152will give three copies of the concatenation of the files. 153Often a site will disable this feature to encourage use of a photocopier 154instead. 155.It Fl 1234 Ar font 156Specifies a 157.Ar font 158to be mounted on font position 159.Ar i . 160The daemon 161will construct a 162.Li .railmag 163file referencing 164the font pathname. 165.It Fl C Ar class 166Job classification 167to use on the burst page. 168For example, 169.Bd -literal -offset indent 170$ lpr \-C EECS foo.c 171.Ed 172.Pp 173causes the system name (the name returned by 174.Xr hostname 1 ) 175to be replaced on the burst page by 176.Tn EECS , 177and the file foo.c to be printed. 178.It Fl i Op Ar numcols 179The output is indented. 180If the next argument is numeric 181.Pq Ar numcols , 182it is used as the number of blanks to be printed before each 183line; otherwise, 8 characters are printed. 184.It Fl J Ar job 185Job name to print on the burst page. 186Normally, the first file's name is used. 187.It Fl T Ar title 188Title name for 189.Xr pr 1 , 190instead of the file name. 191.It Fl U Ar user 192User name to print on the burst page, 193also for accounting purposes. 194This option is only honored if the real user ID is daemon 195(or that specified in the printcap file instead of daemon), 196and is intended for those instances where print filters wish to requeue jobs. 197.It Fl w Ns Ar num 198Uses 199.Ar num 200as the page width for 201.Xr pr 1 . 202.El 203.Sh ENVIRONMENT 204If the following environment variable exists, it is used by 205.Nm lpr : 206.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 207.It Ev PRINTER 208Specifies an alternate default printer. 209.El 210.Sh FILES 211.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/output/*/tf* -compact 212.It Pa /etc/passwd 213local users database 214.It Pa /etc/printcap 215printer capabilities database 216.It Pa /usr/sbin/lpd* 217line printer daemons 218.It Pa /var/spool/output/* 219directories used for spooling 220.It Pa /var/spool/output/*/cf* 221daemon control files 222.It Pa /var/spool/output/*/df* 223data files specified in 224.Dq cf 225files 226.It Pa /var/spool/output/*/tf* 227temporary copies of 228.Dq cf 229files 230.El 231.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 232If you try to spool too large a file, it will be truncated. 233If a user other than root prints a file and spooling is disabled, 234.Nm 235will print a message saying so and will not put jobs in the queue. 236If a connection to 237.Xr lpd 8 238on the local machine cannot be made, 239.Nm 240will say that the daemon cannot be started. 241Diagnostics may be printed in the daemon's log file 242regarding missing spool files by 243.Xr lpd 8 . 244.Sh SEE ALSO 245.Xr lpq 1 , 246.Xr lprm 1 , 247.Xr pr 1 , 248.Xr symlink 2 , 249.Xr printcap 5 , 250.Xr lpc 8 , 251.Xr lpd 8 252.Sh HISTORY 253The 254.Nm 255command appeared in 256.At v5 . 257.Sh BUGS 258Fonts for troff and tex reside on the host with the printer. 259It is currently not possible to use local font libraries. 260