Bug 738412

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #660518 +++

Description of problem:

    If the textonly filter is used as a pipe (i.e. no filename is specified
    on the command line, and the number of copies is "1", then it fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

    cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.3

How reproducible:

    100%  

Steps to Reproduce:

    $ export PPD=/usr/share/cups/model/textonly.ppd
    $ cat /etc/fstab | /usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly 1 me hi 1 "" 

    (the "export PPD..." command isn't strictly necessary, but it
    eliminates an unrelated error message from grep)
  
Actual results:

    /usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly: line 109: : No such file or directory

Expected results:

    The contents of /etc/fstab.

Additional info:

    This is a real-world problem.  To enable printing of C-language
    source files on a text-only printer, I needed to add the line:

        application/x-csource text/plain    10  textonly

    to /etc/cups/local.convs, but then the textonly filter failed as
    described above.

    Line 31 in /usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly:

        if [ "$COPIES" -gt 1 ] && [ $# -lt 6 ]; then

    doesn't make sense to me.  The purpose of that code block (lines
    31-38) is to copy the input file to a temporary file so that the
    next code block (lines 40-50) can perform some LF->CRLF
    translation on the file.  BUT ... the temporary file doesn't get
    created if the number of copies is 1.  As a result,
    the sed command fails and no data is sent to the printer.

    It would seem to me that line 31 should read:

        if [ $# -lt 6 ]; then

    which would create the temp file regardless of the number of copies.

    Making the change above resolved the issue in my testing.

    This is also a problem in Fedora and RHEL 6.

(In reply to comment #0)
> Actual results:
>     /usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly: line 109: : No such file or directory
> ...
>     This is also a problem in Fedora and RHEL 6.

I can confirm that I see this warning with cups-1.5.0 (F-16) and cups-1.4.2 (RHEL-6) but in RHEL-5 I see:

sed: can't read : No such file or directory

Maybe you posted the warning from RHEL-6 ?
However your suggested solution fixes the problem.

Have you ever reported this upstream ? Are you going to do that ? Do you want me to do that ?

--- Additional comment from bmason on 2011-09-14 13:58:06 EDT ---

Hmmm . . . yes, it appears I might have copied the wrong error message. In RHEL 5, I get:

    sed: can't read : No such file or directory

and in RHEL 6 & Fedora 14 I get:

    /usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly: line 109: : No such file or directory

I haven't yet reported this upstream (or cloned this for RHEL 6 and Fedora), but will do so now.

--- Additional comment from bmason on 2011-09-14 14:01:10 EDT ---

Actually, it looks like the textonly filter doesn't exist upstream.  It was added by Red Hat.