Hi-

Witness one of my most awesome shell scripts like ever ever:

#!/bin/sh

# This script does pattern matching on installed printers for any command line arguements give to
# search upon. It then deletes the matched printer

while [ "$*" != "" ] ; do
deletePrinter=lpstat -v | sed -e 's/device for //' | grep -i $1 | cut -d ":" -f 1 ; shift
done

lpadmin -x $deletePrinter

Basically, you can give this script as many arguments as you want (either totally manually, fired off with a Casper policy or with Casper Remote), it'll cycle through them, and if it finds a match, delete that printer.

Tough nut, 4 lines of code. 2 of which are for looping. Gotta pat myself on the back for this one.
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

Jared,

This looks almost perfect for something I need to do Monday.

But I'm failing miserably with sending a variable to tell the script what printer to delete, in fact I think I may need a for loop or something as I want to remove all printers that have lpd://10.44.112.* etc..

Help would be greatly appreciated

Regards,
Ben Toms
IT Support Analyst GREY Group
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Ben,

Can't say I've had the opportunity to play with extension attributes just yet but I have a loop for adding printers that could be changed to remove them.

#!/bin/sh

lpstat -v | grep -i ksmb | awk -F " " '{print $4}' > deletetest.txt

while read inputline
do printer=(echo inputline | cut -d/ -f4) `lpadmin -x $printer`
done < deletetest.txt

Seems to work without incident in my limited testing. Just change the grep to whatever protocol you're looking to nuke.

Regards

Rhys