#! /bin/bash # CUPS wrapper backend "pipe" for printing to any program. # It forwards the print job data like a pipe into another command. # Author: Johannes Meixner , 2009 # For basic information see "man 7 backend" and "man 7 filter". # Activate the "set -x" line to get debugging info in /var/log/cups/error_log: #set -x # Output "Device Discovery" information on stdout: if test "$#" = "0" then echo 'direct pipe "Unknown" "Forward print job data like a pipe to another command"' exit 0 fi # Output usage information in case of wrong number of parameters: if test "$#" != "5" -a "$#" != "6" then echo 'Usage: pipe job-id user title copies options [file]' 1>&2 echo 'Queue setup example:' 1>&2 echo 'lpadmin -p queue_name -v "pipe:/path/to/command?option1=value1&-option2&value2" -E' 1>&2 echo 'The command is called with the specified options as:' 1>&2 echo '/path/to/command option1=value1 -option2 value2' 1>&2 echo 'The original command line parameters (... job-id user ...)' 1>&2 echo 'are provided as environment variables PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV[0-6]' 1>&2 exit 1 fi # Keep the original command line parameters (... job-id user ...) # in environment variables to make them available for the command: export PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV0="$0" export PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV1="$1" export PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV2="$2" export PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV3="$3" export PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV4="$4" export PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV5="$5" export PIPE_BACKEND_ARGV6="$6" # Have the input at fd0 (stdin) in any case: if test -n "$6" then exec <"$6" fi # To be on the safe side clip anything after the first space character # because spaces are excluded characters in a URI (see RFC 2396): URI=${DEVICE_URI%% *} # Extract the command to which the job schould be sent from the URI. # Clip the URI scheme (anything up to the first ':' character) and # clip anything after the first '?' character # because anything after the first '?' character are options: COMMAND=${URI#*:} COMMAND=${COMMAND%%\?*} # Extract the options (e.g. from 'pipe:/path/to/command?option1=value1&-option2&value2' # clip anything up to the first '?' character and # replace the options separator '&' character by a space: OPTIONS=${URI#*\?} if test "$OPTIONS" = "$URI" then OPTIONS="" fi OPTIONS=$( echo "$OPTIONS" | tr '&' ' ' ) # Options could have been specified in a wrong way # as addendum to the DeviceURI separated by spaces # (spaces are excluded characters in a URI, see RFC 2396) # which works by luck at least for some CUPS versions # see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499735 # like 'pipe:/path/to/command option1=value1 -option2 value2' # nevertheless use additionally those kind of options too: MORE_OPTIONS=${DEVICE_URI#* } if test "$MORE_OPTIONS" = "$DEVICE_URI" then MORE_OPTIONS="" fi OPTIONS=$( echo "$OPTIONS" "$MORE_OPTIONS" | tr -s ' ' ) # Test if the command is executable: if ! test -x "$COMMAND" then echo "Cannot execute $COMMAND" 1>&2 exit 1 fi # Replace this wrapper with the actual command # so that it exits with the exit code of the command # and that the command gets any signals directly. exec "$COMMAND" $OPTIONS