Is there a way to get the filename (or title) of a completed print job?

Question

The lpq -a lists, among other things, the name of each file printed.

Rank    Owner    Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  myuser   2       version.txt                     1024 bytes
1st     myuser   8       691227_1399095378.raw           3072 bytes

It appears that the jobs listed correspond to those shown by lpstat -Wnot-completed. But is there a way to get lpq (or any other CUPS program) to show the filenames of jobs that are completed?

Answer 1

less /var/log/cups/page_log

shows me:

hp-oj-5510 243 stefan [24/Apr/2012:10:36:05 +0200] 1 1STATE: - localhost xy-file-46 - -
hp4p 244 stefan [24/Apr/2012:10:38:33 +0200] 1 1 - localhost Unbenannt1 - -
hp-oj-5510 243 stefan [24/Apr/2012:10:39:09 +0200] 2 1INFO: - localhost xy-file-46 - -
hp-oj-5510 246 stefan [24/Apr/2012:10:40:28 +0200] 1 1STATE: - localhost xy-file-46 - -
hp-oj-5510 246 stefan [24/Apr/2012:10:43:37 +0200] 2 1INFO: - localhost xy-file-46 - -
hp-oj-5510 247 stefan [24/Apr/2012:10:43:50 +0200] 1 1STATE: - localhost Unbenannt1 - -

The file on hp4p wasn't printed, and I don't know details of the file-format.

But the cups webinterface has a section jobs and therein completed jobs, (translated from german - the words may differ).

The link goes to localhost - maybe your server is running on a different machine. Unfortunately the filename is only given without path, but with locate, it might in many cases be possible, to reconstruct which file was printed.