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authormsweet <msweet@a1ca3aef-8c08-0410-bb20-df032aa958be>2013-06-07 01:45:14 +0000
committermsweet <msweet@a1ca3aef-8c08-0410-bb20-df032aa958be>2013-06-07 01:45:14 +0000
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Update ippfind documentation with examples, change '-e' to '-x' for --exec.
Add ippfind to the ipptool binary package. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.apple.com/svn/cups/cups.org/trunk@11027 a1ca3aef-8c08-0410-bb20-df032aa958be
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See the file CHANGES-IPPTOOL.txt for a list of changes to this software.
@@ -12,8 +12,30 @@ INTRODUCTION
complex conformance tests and a simple way to query printer, job, and
subscription attributes.
+ CUPS also includes a user program called ippfind that can be used to find
+ IPP printers that have registered themselves using Bonjour (DNS-SD, mDNS,
+ and Zeroconf) and run commands such as ipptool.
-BASIC USAGE
+
+IPPFIND BASIC USAGE
+
+ The ippfind command can be used to discover IPP printers on your network.
+ For example, the following command prints the printer URI of registered IPP
+ printers:
+
+ ippfind
+
+ To find all color IPP printers, run:
+
+ ippfind --txt-color T
+
+ To run the IPP Everywhere conformance test file on every registered IPP
+ printer, run the following command instead:
+
+ ippfind --exec ipptool -t '{}' ipp-everywhere.test \;
+
+
+IPPTOOL BASIC USAGE
The ipptool command requires a printer URI and one or more "test" files that
describe the operations, attributes to display, and expected status and