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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Setting variables in a function Post 302069820 by BCarlson on Wednesday 29th of March 2006 10:15:22 AM
Old 03-29-2006
I fugured it out!!!
All I needed to do what change this:

for i in `cat /tmp/result$$`
do
cmd=$i
$cmd
done


To this:

for i in `cat /tmp/result$$`
do
cmd=$i
export $cmd
done
 

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gnome-printinfo

gnome-printinfo(1)						   User Commands						gnome-printinfo(1)

NAME

       gnome-printinfo - GNOME print manager

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-printinfo [--default] [--edit] [--printer=printer] [--open=printer] [--edit-path=default-source-file] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  GNOME  Print Manager application enables you to control and manage printers and print jobs. You can use GNOME Print Manager to perform
       the following tasks:

	 o  Detect existing printers

	 o  Choose which printer to use for different documents

	 o  View a list of the print jobs that are queued on each printer

	 o  Cancel print jobs that are queued

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d, --default		       Shows the printer queue for the default printer only.

       -e, --edit		       Allows the superuser to edit the default label, icon and     description of printers, for the current  LANG
				       setting.

       --edit-path=default-source-file Allows the superuser to edit the printer default settings for the GConf source specified.

       -o, --open=printer	       Opens the printer queue window for the specified printer.

       -p, --printer=printer	       Shows the printer queue window for the specified printeronly.

       gnome-std-options	       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching GNOME Print Manager to show the default printer only:

       example% gnome-printinfo -d

       Example 2: Launching GNOME Print Manager to show printer "prn004001":

       example% gnome-printinfo -p prn004001

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

       REQ_DIR		       Used to store print requests. If not set, defaults to /var/spool/lp/requests/%s/

       TMP_DIR		       Used to store local print jobs. If not set, defaults to /var/spool/lp/tmp

       LANG		       Current language setting.

       DEF_PRN		       Current default printer.

       PRINTER		       Current printer.

       LPDEST		       Destination printer for lp.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-printinfo        Executable for GNOME print manager

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-print		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       GNOME Print Manager Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       lp(1),  lp(7D),	cancel(1), enable(1), lpq(1B), lpr(1B), lprm(1B), lpstat(1), postprint(1), pr(1), stty(1), accept(1M), lpadmin(1M), lpfil-
       ter(1M), lpforms(1M), lpmove(1M), lpsched(1M), lpshut(1M), lpsystem(1M), lpusers(1M), printers(4), printers.conf(4),  attributes(5),  envi-
       ron(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    2 Oct 2003							gnome-printinfo(1)
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