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My Current Shell Script Input Filter [Linux] #!/usr/bin/bash # Get the environment set up to access everything PS_TO_PRINTER="gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER \ -sOutputFile=- -" MAGIC=$(file -) # Rewindstdin comes in Red Hat's rhs-printfilters package. /usr/local/bin/rewindstdin case `echo $MAGIC | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` in *postscript* ) $PS_TO_PRINTER ;; *ascii* | *text* | *english* | *script* ) a2ps - -q -o - | $PS_TO_PRINTER ;; *"tex dvi file"* ) dvips -f | $PS_TO_PRINTER ;; *) echo -e "Don't know how to print that type of file.\r" printf '\014' ;; esac