OT: print a pdf from command line

[Richard D. Williams]

Dan and Alan,

That was the first  thing I tried and got a bunch of garbage.  I had to 
kill the print job and turn off the printer.

I am using an standard HP-4020 laser jet.  I think the RH driver is 
set-up to Text.  Should I change it to Raw?

Richard

Dan Coutu wrote:

> Richard D. Williams wrote:
>
>> I would like to print a pdf file from the command line on a Red Hat box.
>>
>> Can anyone give me any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Richard D. Williams
>
>
> Richard, assuming that your printer is already configured and you want 
> to print to the default printer
> it is as easy as:
>
> lpr mydocument.pdf
>
> Where, of course, you specify your real filename instead of 
> mydocument.pdf.
>
> Note: the lp command is often interchangeable with the lpr command. 
> That's just a bit of
> funkiness from the BSD/System V split in UNIX oh so many years ago.
>
> Dan
>