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Jobs waiting

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Jobs waiting

12:33 28-02-08

#01

Hello

I would like to know how can I get the list of pending jobs in a given printer queue with ruby/rails.

Thanks

regards

11:12 02-03-08

#02

To start with, what operating system is this?

16:23 04-03-08

#03

I am assuming this is for linux.

I should embed a system call to lpq and getting the output, parsing it with ruby and inserting it into a collection.

something like:

jobs = lpq.split '\n'

the backticks turn the command into a returning string, then split it on line breaks and parse out the jobs.

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