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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with script to automate CUPS printer installs Post 302749071 by RudiC on Thursday 27th of December 2012 12:27:36 PM
Old 12-27-2012
You've gotten 17 ifs in your code snippet but 11 fis only, so I guess there sth. wrong with those. Taking a closer look, the if [ "$response" != "yes" ] seems to be missing one, but, more related to the syntax error that you quote, every if [ "$option-oki"...] has an unterminated if - elif - elif construct in it, which will bother bash if it reaches the esac statement. Pls correct and come back with the result.
BTW, did you consider bash's select statement to offer and read a selection? And, I'd prefer to put the respective options every printer offers into an option file that you can print out for selection and that you can easily adapt should a new printer model come in. Plus, why don't you collect e.g. all three-tray-printers into one single question (option_OKI between 1 and 6 -> ask for tray) and generate the printer driver name from the few variables read in answer?
Last edited by RudiC; 12-27-2012 at 01:37 PM..
 

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cupsdisable

cupsenable(8)							    Apple Inc.							     cupsenable(8)

NAME

       cupsdisable, cupsenable - stop/start printers and classes

SYNOPSIS

       cupsdisable [ -E ] [ -U username ] [ -c ] [ -h server[:port] ] [ -r reason ] [ --hold ] destination(s)
       cupsenable [ -E ] [ -U username ] [ -c ] [ -h server[:port] ] [ --release ] destination(s)

DESCRIPTION

       cupsenable starts the named printers or classes while cupsdisable stops the named printers or classes.

OPTIONS

       The following options may be used:

       -E   Forces encryption of the connection to the server.

       -U username
	    Uses the specified username when connecting to the server.

       -c   Cancels all jobs on the named destination.

       -h server[:port]
	    Uses the specified server and port.

       --hold
	    Holds remaining jobs on the named printer.	Useful for allowing the current job to complete before performing maintenance.

       -r "reason"
	    Sets the message associated with the stopped state.  If no reason is specified then the message is set to "Reason Unknown".

       --release
	    Releases pending jobs for printing.  Use after running cupsdisable with the --hold option to resume printing.

CONFORMING TO

       Unlike  the  System  V printing system, CUPS allows printer names to contain any printable character except SPACE, TAB, "/", or "#".  Also,
       printer and class names are not case-sensitive.

       The System V versions of these commands are disable and enable, respectively.  They have been renamed to avoid conflicts with  the  bash(1)
       build-in commands of the same names.

       The  CUPS versions of disable and enable may ask the user for an access password depending on the printing system configuration.  This dif-
       fers from the System V versions which require the root user to execute these commands.

SEE ALSO

       cupsaccept(8), cupsreject(8), cancel(1), lp(1), lpadmin(8), lpstat(1), CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2007-2017 by Apple Inc.

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