Thank you for that Don You are a star Worked like a charm.
The reason I used "awk" as I have a script that removes printers (code below) & that worked fine. So I was kinda of scratching my head so to speak.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Removes ALL printers on that machine
for printer in `lpstat -p | awk '{print $2}'`
do
echo Deleting $printer
lpadmin -x $printer
done
exit 0
There is an extra space in line 3.
I'm not sure what "There is an extra space in line 3." is referring to.
Note that awk is a fairly expensive program to use this way. Since read is a shell built-in, it is usually faster and uses fewer system resources to do the above with something like the previous example:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Removes ALL printers on that machine
lpstat -p | while read junk printer junk
do echo "Deleting $printer"
lpadmin -x "$printer"
done
exit 0
Note that I use the name junk for variables used by read for fields that I won't be using later as a convention to make it clear that I don't care what is in those fields. Some people use a variable named ignore, x, or _ for this. The name isn't important; just use something that makes it clear to you (when you look at this code again a year from now) what is being done.
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You are a star 
Worked like a charm.