Shell Programming and Scripting

HI

I am trying to create a bash script to print whatever i type in


It has to have these below to define the size of the label and what size to print the text

Code:

N
q609
A100,10,0,5,2,2,N," "
P1

It has to be sent to below

Code:

> /dev/usblp0

So what it has to be is

Written Text ----> sent to printer

and i want to be able to write what i want to print


PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

Moderator's Comments:

Please use next time code tags for your code and data

Any printer which understands postscript or PCL can also understand raw text so perhaps, at its very simplest, you could do:

Code:

sed 's/$/\r/n' >/dev/usblp0

When run in a terminal, sed will read from the keyboard, convert \n into \r\n, and print it back out into /dev/usblp0.

When you're finished typing, hit control-D to tell sed the document is finished and to quit. You may not see any printing happen until you do, unless you have an old-fashioned tractor feed printer. Even for those, you won't see any printing until you finish a line with enter...

What I dont get is what do you mean by written text sent to printer...
The rest:
You put the desired sequence in a file, you send it to the printer ... then ? see above...
I would use an alias for setting the printer, like that you could have a few settings you would call before to print...

i dont want to save a file and then use that code every time i just want to be able to type then print because i have like a thousand codes to print

Why not type the thousands of things into one big file, then? Then just print the big file.

I suspect if you explained exactly what you're doing better, we could find better ways to do it.

Sorry im not that good at explaning my self
I have a lp 2844 label printer and i have to print stickers out with a code on each of them for items that are going to be stored so i can keep track of them in an excel file

You want to generate numbered stickers?

How do you usually use this printer? It may be proprietary app-specific, and may be easier to use it than try and write a whole printing system from scratch.

This printer apparently speaks EPL2