pac — printer/plotter accounting information

       The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown.

Debian                                            May 31, 2007                                            PAC(8)

pac reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating the number of pages (the usual case) or feet
       (for  raster devices) of paper consumed by each named user, and prints out how much each user consumed in
       pages or feet and dollars.

       When no user arguments are given, statistics are printed for every user who has used any paper.

       The options are as follows:

       -Pprinter
               Accounting is done for the named printer.  Normally, accounting is done for the  default  printer
               (site dependent) or the value of the environment variable PRINTER is used.

       -c      Causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the output is sorted alphabetically by name.

       -m      Causes  the  host  name to be ignored in the accounting file.  This allows for a user on multiple
               machines to have all of his printing charges grouped together.

       -pprice
               The value price is used for the cost in dollars instead of the default value of 0.02 or the price
               specified in /etc/printcap.

       -r      Reverse the sorting order.

       -s      Accounting information is summarized on  the  summary  accounting  file;  this  summarization  is
               necessary since on a busy system, the accounting file can grow by several lines per day.

/var/account/?acct  raw accounting files
       /var/account/?_sum  summary accounting files
       /etc/printcap       printer capability database

       The pac command appeared in 4.0BSD.

       pac — printer/plotter accounting information

pac formats the output into a simple table, using four columns:

       1.   The  host  name followed by the user's login name (column "Login").  If the -m option was specified,
            the host name will be omitted.

       2.   The number of pages or feet printed (column "pages/feet").

       3.   The number of copies made (column "runs").

       4.   The total price for the user (column "price").

       If no user argument was specified, pac will print a summary line with print totals.

printcap(5)

pac [-cmrs] [-Pprinter] [-pprice] [user...]