Re: Adding to the command line via variables

From: Greg Andrews (gerg_at_panix.com)
Date: 07/31/05 

Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:06:08 +0000 (UTC)

cfajohnson@gmail.com writes:
>
> Unless you need a regular expression to select the files, there is
> no need for ls or grep. To print all the files beginning with
> "output", just use:
>
>lp -d printername output*
>

That's a good approach, but there is one caveat: Some of the SVR4
derived print systems (where the "lp" command came from) have limits
on the number of files that can be printed in each lp command.

On Solaris 2.3 through Solaris 99, the limit is something like 52 or 56.
I don't know if Solaris 10 has expanded that limit.

  -Greg 

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