How to print specific output only, ie, %.lis - only

Products

• CA Automic Applications Manager (AM)

Issue/Introduction

How to print specific output only, ie, %.lis - only

Environment

Release: AAMOS499000-8.0-Automic Applications Manager-OS400 Agent
Component:

Resolution

Symptoms

When trying to send specific files to your printer only you end up getting al output files as well as the ones you wish to print(i.e. .lis files).

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Cause

You need to set up the script on your output device to specifically print only these files.

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Resolution

You can set up the output interface for your output device using the following:

ext=`echo $1|cut -f2 -d"."`
if [ "$ext" = "lis" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

This will print just the .lis files

If they want something more dynamic, they could add a parameter to the Output Device Interface and pass a regular expression.
On Unix there is a "expr" command that can evaluate expressions.
 
Example Match: it returns zero.
expr /opt/uc4/test.txt : ".*\.txt"
echo $?
0
 
Example No Match: it returns one.
expr /opt/uc4/test.txt : ".*\.lis"
echo $?
1