Printing a large number of pdf files

All you hear about the next big improvement in Linux distributions seems to be screen oriented: “It will have a new button which will be more Mac like”. I don’t say that having a button to click isn’t nice but don’t forget the power of the command line. Take the following example: “you need to print 50 pdf files in a folder”. You can either open them one by one in evince and print them (1 click to open, one for the print icon print, one to click ok * 50) or you can issue a single command which does this job while you read the next review on linux usability:

<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #000000;">lpr -o PrintoutMode=Draft.Gray *.pdf
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If you don’t need to be fast you can make it even simple by ignoring the -o option. So, don’t forget the command line.