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I've seen this done and I used to be able to do it. I had it documented in a file that was clobbered recently in a backup issue.

I have a text string I want to print from bash using lpr. I know I can print text files easily, but how can I print text that is just in quotation marks or in a string without first saving it as a file, then printing the file?

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You could use here-strings with 

lpr <<< "text string"

or if your string is contained in a variable

lpr <<< "$var"
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  • I think I also remember it being done with an actual option for the lpr command, as opposed to any piping or redirect. – Tango Nov 27 '13 at 18:12
  • @Tango, that is interesting. I do not see such an option with `lpr` on my installation however I am no expert on `lpr` – iruvar Nov 27 '13 at 18:14
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    I remember it took a lot of scrounging to find it, so it's not well documented, but I remember at one point finding something that was easy and surprised me. Unfortunately, I must be using different terms with Google now than I did then because I am not finding it. – Tango Nov 27 '13 at 18:26