Deleting multiple print jobs

[tristan308]

I have a printer that is no longer attached. I noticed this morning that about 2000 jobs are queued up. How can I delete multiple jobs instead of one at a time?

 

[trunix]

cancel -a should remove all print jobs to all printers
alternatively cancel -a printername will cancel all print jobs to printername

 

[tristan308]

great that worked

 

[aixqueen]

I might have considered moving them to another printer rather than deleting
especially if it was a report that could not e duplicated.

To move all print jobs on queue lp1 to queue lp0, enter:

qmov -mlp0 -Plp1