[Greymane]

I'm trying to make a script that autmatically prints all .doc files in a certain directory. after printing the file, the script should automatically delete it. i'm kinda new to shell scripting so a couple of hints would be greatly appreciated!

[thebunny]

Here goes something simple to get you started (completely untested)

#!/bin/sh

#MyVeryBestPrinter is your printer name
# This is where .doc files are
DOC_DIR="/path/to/whereever"

for FILE in $DOC_DIR/*.doc
do
lp -d "MyVeryBestPrinter" $FILE
rm -f $FILE
done

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Now I am not sure CUPS will be able to deal with .doc files so you might have to install a filter of some sort for that (antiword is a good candidate) or convert them to PDF (CUPS can deal with PDF,PS...).

HTH

[Greymane]

thanks! i'll try that!