I’m trying to do this…
set printersConf to do shell script “grep ‘<Printer’ /private/etc/cups/printers.conf”
… but of course I get a “Permission denied” error. Anybody know another way to return this info? Or a way around the permission problem?
Thanks
Two options come to mind.
First, if you’re an admin on your machine, you can just:
do shell script “grep ‘<Printer’ /etc/cups/printer.conf” with administrator privileges
This will prompt you for your password then use sudo to execute the command.
If you want the script to be run by non-admins on the machine then change the permissions of the file so anyone can read it:
chmod a+r /etc/cups/printer.conf
Although this approach may have unexpected results, and may be reset by cups the next time you edit your printer list.