You are right -- was leaving out the -p _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sites, Brad Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 2:49 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: getting printer location and descriptioninformationfromthecommand line Really? It does for me. memcolinux5 root medev /root > lpstat -l -p PCO-045M printer PCO-045M is idle. enabled since Jan 01 00:00 Form mounted: Content types: any Printer types: unknown Description: PCO-045M Alerts: none Location: Keene St. - Columbia Connection: direct Interface: /etc/cups/ppd/PCO-045M.ppd On fault: no alert After fault: continue Users allowed: (all) Forms allowed: (none) Banner required Charset sets: (none) Default pitch: Default page size: Default port settings: -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Blackburn, Marvin Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:58 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: getting printer location and description informationfromthecommand line That does not provide the location and description _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sites, Brad Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:52 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: getting printer location and description information fromthecommand line lpstat -l -p printer_name -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Blackburn, Marvin Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:47 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: getting printer location and description information from thecommand line Is there a way to get printer location and description information from the command line. The information shows up in cups and system-config-printer, but I need a way to extract this information via command line. Lpadmin allow you to set this info, but doesn't provide it. _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list