I have devised a script that massively saves my time at work.
I send products out via courier, and as part of that process I print out a shipping label to attach to the product being shipped.
I have found that if I use Firefox to create the shipping labels, I can open all the pdf files generated, and then go to /tmp/mozilla_root0 folder and type lpr *.pdf it prints out all the pdf files.
Now this is great except, Thunderbird also uses that directory to store it's temporary files, so there is the risk of typing lpr *.pdf that everything I have looked at that day gets printed. I don't want that, just the shipping labels.
Now, the shipping labels always have a filename that is 6 characters long. What I'd like to know is if there is a way to make the script only print out PDF files that have only 6 characters long?
Is that too hard, of would it be easier to change the tmp directory for thunderbird?
Print files with certain length filename
WOW.
How awesome is Linux?
How awesome are you rcrsn51?
3 minutes with a solution.
I am not 100% certain that that works, as I am at home and not at work to test it, but I tried it with the cp command and it works, so I'm guessing it will work with the lpr command. (the cp command also gets some time in my script so even if the printing doesn't work, your answer is still awesome)
Will test tomorrow at work to make sure it works how I need it to, and will report back.
Thank you
How awesome is Linux?
How awesome are you rcrsn51?
3 minutes with a solution.
I am not 100% certain that that works, as I am at home and not at work to test it, but I tried it with the cp command and it works, so I'm guessing it will work with the lpr command. (the cp command also gets some time in my script so even if the printing doesn't work, your answer is still awesome)
Will test tomorrow at work to make sure it works how I need it to, and will report back.
Thank you
