Below script will identify all current print queues and clean up queues older than “1” day(you can change this number as per your retention policy)

!/bin/bash

#

Author : Heema Satapathy

About : Clear Printer Queue

export A=$(date +%j)
mv /tmp/Heema/printqueue.txt /tmp/Heema/printqueue-date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S.txt
mv /tmp/Heema/printqueuename.txt /tmp/Heema/printqueuename-date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S.txt
find /tmp/Heema/ -name “printqueue.” -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

lpstat -o | awk ‘{print $5 $6 $7}’ > /tmp/Heema/printqueue.txt
lpstat -o | awk ‘{print $1}’ > /tmp/Heema/printqueuename.txt
file1=/tmp/Heema/printqueue.txt
file2=/tmp/Heema/printqueuename.txt
export B=$(date +%Y)
Lines=$(cat $file1)
for Line in $Lines
do
echo “Queue in deletion process was from $Line”
export C=$(date +%j –date “$Line”)
export D=$(date +%Y –date “$Line”)
echo “This queue was on :$C day of $D year”
if [ “$B” = “$D” ]
then
diff=$(($A – $C))
echo “The difference is :$diff days”
echo “The current year is :$D”
if [ $diff -gt 1 ]
then
echo “The queue is older than 1 days during current year, clearing the queue….”
num=1
#E=$(sed -n ‘p’ $file2)
#echo “$E”
F=$(head -n $num $file2)
echo “$F”
cancel -a $F
num=num+1
else
echo “The queue is newer than 1 days during current year, NOT CLEARING THIS QUEUE”
fi
else
echo “There are queues from last year, PLEASE REVIEW AND DELETE THEM MANUALLY”| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t heema.satapathy@gmail.com
fi
echo “The day today is :$A th day out of $B year”
done