Options

-c "command; ..."

Specifies one or more PIDU commands. Enclose the commands in single or double quotation marks, and end each statement with a semicolon. If a command contains a value that requires single quotation marks, such as a hexadecimal value, enclose the commands in double quotation marks. You can repeat the -c option.

If you do not specify the -c option or the name of a file, pidu reads the commands from standard input (stdin), which can be either keyboard data or output from another command.

You can specify these PIDU commands:

• create
• delete
• display
• dump
• export
• force-create
• list
• modify
• rename

-q

Suppresses informational messages that the pidu command writes to stdout.

-v

Writes the name of the Printer Inventory to stderr. Also provides additional informational messages.