Learn Unix: The "cancel" command

Command

cancel

Description

The "cancel" command lets you stop print requests from printing.

Examples

Requests can be cancelled by (1) using the printer-id or (2) by specifying the printer name.

cancel laser-101

This command terminates (or cancels) the print request identified as "laser-101".

cancel -u student1

This command cancels all of the print jobs that are queued for the user named "student1".


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