Re: Printing Ascii files via lpr

From: Edgar Allen (eallen_at_allenhome.kc.rr.com)
Date: 08/03/03 

Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 03:02:06 GMT

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begin B'ichela wrote:
> In article <beg1ec$4o5r6$1@ID-134476.news.dfncis.de>, davehinz@spamcop.net wrote:
>> Yup, I think what you want is "pr". Lets you do portrait, landscape,
>> specify columnts, font size, headers, line numbering, and I would
>> suspect pagination as you mention.
> I use pr quite often, and to my knowledge, there is no way to
> easily use it to print all of the odd pages, flip the paper around to
> print all of the evens.
> Looking at the gnu pr (thats the one with Slackware 8.0 linux
> here) the option:
> +FIRST_PAGE[:LAST_PAGE],
> --pages=FIRST_PAGE[:LAST_PAGE]
>
> begin [stop] printing with page FIRST_[LAST_]PAGE
> Looks like I would have to do something like this
> pr +1:1 myfile | lpr
> second page:
> pr +p3:3 myfile| lpr
> could I use a .sh script via a counting to count from 1-480 in odd
> numbers and feed that to pr? like this
> pr +$page:$page myfile | lpr
>
>
Since I know you have Linux I suggest:

    for pg in $(seq 1 2 480)
    do
        pr +${pg}:${pg} myfile >>/tmp/odds
    done
    lpr /tmp/odds

Reload paper...

    for pg in $(seq 2 2 480)
    do
        pr +${pg}:${pg} myfile >>/tmp/evens
    done
    lpr /tmp/evens

Does not seem that hard and would be more efficient than
spooling all those pages individually.

Sending 'pr' across your file 480 times might take longer than
the ghostscript method though. 

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