List Print Jobs by Printer

lpstat

The lpq command shows you the files that are queued to print, but it doesn't tell you to which printer the files are being sent. To learn that, you need to use the lpstat command, covered earlier in "List All Available Printers." This time, however, simply use lpstat without any options at all:

$lpstat bro-489    rsgranne 108544 Tue 10 Dec 2005 bro_wk-490 rsgranne 524288 Tue 10 Dec 2005 

The result is a list of print jobs, with the name of each printer handling the job at the beginning of each line. Did you accidentally send a job to a printer to which you're not currently connected? Find out with lpstat and then delete the job, which you'll learn in the next section.