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    Unix Command line - Printer Details

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
      last edited by DustinB3403

      Which the printer "Kind" should and does have the <drivername> in it with how I installed the printer. I just want to verify if anyone has a printer of the same name and not that new "Kind"

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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        Specifically, I'd want to try to find the highlighted information here even though this is just a sample printer.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          If you do an lpstat -t, does the info every appear in the output?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

            If you do an lpstat -t, does the info every appear in the output?

            I get detail, but not the driver name. So no.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403
              last edited by DustinB3403

              For anyone reading this in the future, the challenge is we've replaced a printer with a newer model, I can successfully check to see if the new driver is installed and I can list what printers are installed.

              What I can't do is verify that the new printer is actually the new printer with the updated driver. (At this point it's just a matter of trusting that I didn't goof up)

              So I could hoof it around the office and check workstations and see if the new printer is actually the new printer with the new driver. But I REALLY don't want to do that. .

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              • black3dynamiteB
                black3dynamite
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                @DustinB3403 said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                lpstat

                lpoptions -p PrinterName | grep 'printer-make-and-model='
                
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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @black3dynamite
                  last edited by

                  @black3dynamite said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                  lpstat

                  lpoptions -p PrinterName | grep 'printer-make-and-model='
                  

                  That works! now just to filter down just the piece I want to see as I get a wall of text.

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite @DustinB3403
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                    @DustinB3403 said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                    @black3dynamite said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                    @DustinB3403 said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                    lpstat

                    lpoptions -p PrinterName | grep 'printer-make-and-model='
                    

                    That works! now just to filter down just the piece I want to see as I get a wall of text.

                    Using awk should work.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
                      last edited by DustinB3403

                      Here is the completed command.

                      lpoptions -p <NAME> | grep -o "printer-make-and-model='Your Printer make and Model"

                      That outputs the exact detail I needed!

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                      • black3dynamiteB
                        black3dynamite @DustinB3403
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                        @DustinB3403 said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                        Here is the completed command.

                        lpoptions -p <NAME> | grep -o "printer-make-and-model='Your Printer make and Model"

                        That outputs the exact detail I needed!

                        lpoptions -p SHCSL_209_ColorPrinter | sed -r "s/^.*(printer-make-and-model.*)'.*$/\1/g; s/'//g; s/printer-make-and-model=//g"
                        

                        This will remove all the unnecessary text, printer-make-and-model=, and the single quotes.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @black3dynamite
                          last edited by

                          @black3dynamite said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Unix Command line - Printer Details:

                          Here is the completed command.

                          lpoptions -p <NAME> | grep -o "printer-make-and-model='Your Printer make and Model"

                          That outputs the exact detail I needed!

                          lpoptions -p SHCSL_209_ColorPrinter | sed -r "s/^.*(printer-make-and-model.*)'.*$/\1/g; s/'//g; s/printer-make-and-model=//g"
                          

                          This will remove all the unnecessary text, printer-make-and-model=, and the single quotes.

                          Yeah I'm also able to just use lpoptions -p SHCSL_209_ColorPrinter | grep "'SHCSL_209_ColorPrinter'" and get what I need in a single line response.

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