bulk printing html files

Hubertus Hiden hubertus at hiden.org
Tue May 1 12:53:16 UTC 2007


Mitch Contla schrieb:
> On 4/30/07, *Hubertus Hiden* <hubertus at hiden.org
> <mailto:hubertus at hiden.org>> wrote:
>
>     I have a bunch of about 200 html files. Every file prints to
>     exactly one
>     page. Could anyone please be so kind and give me a hint on how I could
>     accomplish printing them from the commandline ? Or any other
>     method that
>     doesn't require opening 200 files and clicking print ?
>
>     Many thanks,
>     Hubertus
>
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> If I understand you correctly, you are trying to print the actual
> source html file. Why not open a shell and use lp (or lpr):
>
> $ lp /path/to/your/files/*.html
>
> This will send each file to your default printer as a single job.
>
> -- 
> Mitch

Sorry, that's what I've forgot to mention. I don't want to print the
source, I want to print the rendered html. And therefore I guess that I
need to pass the html file over to firefox or something similar and then
start the printing process.


Hubertus




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