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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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ppdmerge(1)							    Apple Inc.							       ppdmerge(1)

NAME

       ppdmerge - merge ppd files (deprecated)

SYNOPSIS

       ppdmerge [ -o output-ppd-file ] ppd-file ppd-file [ ...	ppd-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       ppdmerge  merges  two or more PPD files into a single, multi-language PPD file.	This program is deprecated and will be removed in a future
       release of CUPS.

OPTIONS

       ppdmerge supports the following options:

       -o output-ppd-file
	      Specifies the PPD file to create.  If not specified, the merged PPD file is written to the standard  output.   If  the  output  file
	      already exists, it is silently overwritten.

NOTES

       ppdmerge  does  not  check whether the merged PPD files are for the same device.  Merging of different device PPDs will yield unpredictable
       results.

SEE ALSO

       ppdc(1), ppdhtml(1), ppdi(1), ppdpo(1), ppdcfile(5), CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)

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