How to Cancel a Print Request From a Specific User

1. (Optional) Become superuser, lp, or assume an equivalent role if you are going to cancel print requests of other users.

2. Cancel a print request from a specific user.

   $ cancel -u user-list [printer-name]

   -u user-list	Cancels the print request for a specified user.   user-list can be one or more user names. Use a space or a comma to separate user names. If you use spaces, enclose the list of names in quotes.
   printer-name	Specifies the printer for which you want to cancel the specified user's print requests.  printer-name can be one or more printer names. Use a space or a comma to separate printer names. If you use spaces, enclose the list of printer names in quotes. If you don't specify printer-name, the user's print requests will be canceled on all printers.

Examples—Canceling a Print Request From a Specific User

The following example shows how to cancel all the print requests submitted by the user george on the printer luna.

# cancel -u george luna
request "luna-23" cancelled

The following example shows how to cancel all the print requests submitted by the user george on all printers.

# cancel -u george
request "asteroid-3" cancelled
request "luna-8" cancelled