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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with script to automate CUPS printer installs Post 302749105 by RudiC on Thursday 27th of December 2012 01:13:20 PM
Old 12-27-2012
I don't have a ready-to-use solution at hand, but I could imagine a file called OKIprinters contain the following lines with <TAB> separated columns:
Code:
B4350   MF/1/2  sog_oki_b4350_mf.ppd    sog_oki_b4350_t1.ppd    sog_oki_b4350_t2.ppd
B4600   MF/1/2  sog_oki_b4600_t1.ppd    sog_oki_b4600_t2.ppd
B6200   1/2/3   sog_oki_b6200_t1.ppd    sog_oki_b6200_t2.ppd    sog_oki_b6200_t3.ppd
B6250   1/2/3   sog_oki_b6250_t1.ppd    sog_oki_b6250_t2.ppd    sog_oki_b6250_t3.ppd
B6500   1/2     sog_oki_b6500_t1.ppd    sog_oki_b6500_t2.ppd
B710    1/2/3   sog_oki_b710_t1.ppd     sog_oki_b710_t2.ppd     sog_oki_b710_t3.ppd
C330DN  1       sog_oki_c330dn.ppd
C3400   1       sog_oki_C3400.ppd
C3600   1       sog_oki_c3600.ppd

, then a script containing
Code:
$ OKIS=$(cut -f1 OKIprinters)
$ select Pr in $OKIS; do echo $Pr, $REPLY; done
1) B4350
2) B4600
3) B6200
4) B6250
5) B6500
6) B710
7) C330DN
8) C3400
9) C3600
#? 3
B6200, 3

, and you could go on from there, selecting the trays, and then the drivers. If you got a new printer, add a line to your file(s), and it flies.
 

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ppdi

ppdi(1)                                                             Apple Inc.                                                             ppdi(1)

NAME

       ppdi - import ppd files

SYNOPSIS

       ppdi [ -I include-directory ] [ -o source-file ] ppd-file [ ppd-file2 ... ppd-fileN ]

DESCRIPTION

       ppdi  imports  one  or  more  PPD  files into a PPD compiler source file.  Multiple languages of the same PPD file are merged into a single
       printer definition to facilitate accurate changes for all localizations.

       The -o option specifies the PPD source file to update. If the source file does not exist, a new  source  file  is  created.  Otherwise  the
       existing file is merged with the new PPD file(s) on the command-line. If no source file is specified, the filename "ppdi.drv" is used.

SEE ALSO

       ppdc(1), ppdhtml(1), ppdmerge(1), ppdpo(1), ppdcfile(5)
       http://localhost:631/help

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20 May 2008                                                            CUPS                                                                ppdi(1)
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