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.\" "$Id: lpq.man 8421 2009-03-09 21:59:55Z mike $"
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.\"   lpq man page for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS).
.\"
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.\"   Copyright 1997-2006 by Easy Software Products.
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.TH lpq 1 "CUPS" "16 June 2008" "Apple Inc."
.SH NAME
lpq \- show printer queue status
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lpq
[ -E ] [ -U
.I username
] [ -h
.I server[:port]
] [ -P
.I destination[/instance]
] [ -a ] [ -l ] [
.I +interval
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIlpq\fR shows the current print queue status on the named
printer. Jobs queued on the default destination will be shown if
no printer or class is specified on the command-line.
.LP
The \fI+interval\fR option allows you to continuously report the
jobs in the queue until the queue is empty; the list of jobs is
shown once every \fIinterval\fR seconds.
.SH OPTIONS
\fIlpq\fR supports the following options:
.TP 5
-E
.br
Forces encryption when connecting to the server.
.TP 5
-P destination[/instance]
.br
Specifies an alternate printer or class name.
.TP 5
-U username
.br
Specifies an alternate username.
.TP 5
-a
.br
Reports jobs on all printers.
.TP 5
-h server[:port]
.br
Specifies an alternate server.
.TP 5
-l
.br
Requests a more verbose (long) reporting format.

.\" Oracle has added the ARC stability level to this manual page
.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	print/cups
=
Stability	Volatile
.TE 
.PP
.SH SEE ALSO
\fIcancel(1)\fR, \fIlp(1)\fR, \fIlpr(1)\fR, \fIlprm(1)\fR,
\fIlpstat(1)\fR,
.br
http://localhost:631/help
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2009 by Apple Inc.
.\"
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.\"


.SH NOTES

.\" Oracle has added source availability information to this manual page
This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.4.5/cups-1.4.5-source.tar.bz2

Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.cups.org/.