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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to print 1 file then when finished another file prints beside it? Post 303038726 by gull04 on Thursday 12th of September 2019 10:33:08 AM
Old 09-12-2019
Hi,

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How to print file1 first then print file2 beside it after file1 has finished printed?
You actually mean to output the first file to the printer and then to reposition the paper to the first line and print the second file on a line by line basis starting at the first free print position on the line then I think that you are asking for quite a lot.

I'm going to go with the earlier contributors to this thread and suggest that paste is your best option at the moment.

You don't say anything about the system, not too mention the printer. A 4Gb file given your example of 6 chars per line would run to roughly 8 Million pages, this is going to take some time to print. So repositioning all the pages in the right order and running through the printer would be quite a task not to mention somewhat time consuming.

It starts to get really complex if you want to print a file and then run the same paper through the printer a second time printing at potentially a different start position for each line.

Regards

Gull04
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directomatic

DIRECTOMATIC(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   DIRECTOMATIC(1)

NAME

       directomatic - Print without spooler

SYNOPSIS

       directomatic -P <printdef> [-J jobtitle] [-o option=value [...]] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       Directomatic is a filter script to print with free software printer drivers without the need of a print spooler.  It is designed to be used
       together with a Foomatic printer definition file.

   Options
       -P <printdef>
		 where printdef is the printer definition file to use.

       -J <jobtitle>
		 where job title will be printed in the head line of every page of a plain text job.

       -o option=value
		 Set an arbitrary option.

       file	 The file to print.

   Commands
       Directomatic will print from standard input unless a file to print is specified on the command line.  If your printer definition file is in
       /etc/foomatic/direct or ~/.foomatic/direct you do not need to specify its path.	Put a (instructions in the file) to redirect the output of
       directomatic to your printer instead of standard output. To make normal users able to print this way add them to group lp and make sure the
       appropriate printer device file /dev/lpX is group-writable.

       See http://www.linuxprinting.org/direct-doc.html

FILES

       /etc/foomatic/direct/<queue>
				The foomatic printer definition file.

EXIT STATUS

       directomatic returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

AUTHOR

       Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.

BUGS

       None so far.

Foomatic Project						    2001-05-07							   DIRECTOMATIC(1)
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