Solved: Can I trigger a hardcopy (printer print) from perl?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks,

Question: Can I trigger a printout of a hardcopy, text or so, from perl, without the script-hosting system (in this case Linux) asking for a confirmation, a print-dialog or similar?

Answered it myself:

open(PRN, "|lp");
print PRN "hello";
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(Note to myself: research first, ask later...). As I already wrote the post, left here in case anyone else comes up with this.

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Re: Solved: Can I trigger a hardcopy (printer print) from perl? by isync (Hermit) on Jan 09, 2012 at 15:05 UTC
Related reading: Net::Printer, Net::LPR, Net::CUPS etc. on cpan. Or use from perl what the system exposes, for example `system("lpr some.pdf")`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Solved: Can I trigger a hardcopy (printer print) from perl? by mrdurtal (Scribe) on Jan 10, 2012 at 12:33 UTC
Would there not be something like: `open(PRN, "\|lp") or &dienice("Can't print: $!\n"); print PRN "hello";` [download] :There is more than one way to @verb a cat:	[reply] [d/l]