Re: Printer Accounting

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From: Chuck Yerkes
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 01:33

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In article <1992Apr5.005549.1702@nic.csu.net> sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes:
how to add printer accounting...
>in the shell/terminal window, do "cat > /usr/adm/NeXTprinter.acct"
>and, presss Ctrl-D to create the empty file.

Actually the appropriate Unix way of creating an empty file is
"touch filename"  Creates if none existed, leaves it if there
"cp /dev/null filename" make an empty file (if there before or not)


Not to pick nits, but it's a VERY important shell script trick


chuck

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chuck yerkes         chuck@fsg.com
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fusion systems group, NY NY

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Subject: Re: Printer Accounting
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