Command Line to list / cancel print jobs / Example?

Under Windows, you can also quite easily list the print jobs via the command line (abort / stop)!

For this purpose, the WMIC PRINTJOB command is very well suited to conveniently print these for larger lists of print jobs.

Use:
to see all print jobs!

wmic printjob get

To list all print jobs!

wmic printjob list

To delete all print jobs!

wmic printjob delete

PRINTJOB COMMANDS / OPTIONS

ColorConsole  [Version 2.6.1001 ]
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.1.1804]
Copyright (c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>WMIC PRINTJOB /?

PRINTJOB - Print job management.

HINT: BNF for Alias usage.
( [WMIObject] |  [] |
 [] ) [].

USAGE:

PRINTJOB ASSOC []
PRINTJOB CALL  []
PRINTJOB CREATE
PRINTJOB DELETE
PRINTJOB GET [] []
PRINTJOB LIST [] []
C:\Windows\system32>

PRINTJOB LIST COMMANDS

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>WMIC PRINTJOB LIST /?

Property list operations.
USAGE:

LIST [] []

The following LIST formats are available:

BRIEF                     - Document, JobId, JobStatus, Owner, Priority, Size, N
ame
FULL                      - DataType, Description, Document, DriverName, Elapsed
Time, HostPrintQueue, InstallDate, JobId, JobStatus, Name, Notify, Owner, PagesP
rinted, Parameters, PrintProcessor, Priority, Size, StartTime, Status, StatusMas
k, TimeSubmitted, TotalPages, UntilTime, DriverName, Name
INSTANCE                  - JobId
STATUS                    - Document, JobId, JobStatus, Name, PagesPrinted, Stat
us, JobIdCopy, Name

The following LIST switches are available:

/TRANSLATE:      - Translate output via values from.
/EVERY: [/REPEAT:] - Returns value every (X interval) se
conds, If /REPEAT specified the command is executed times.
/FORMAT:   - Keyword/XSL filename to process the XML results.

NOTE: Order of /TRANSLATE and /FORMAT switches influences the appearance of outp
ut.
Case1: If /TRANSLATE precedes /FORMAT, then translation of results will be follo
wed by formatting.
Case2: If /TRANSLATE succeeds /FORMAT, then translation of the formatted results
will be done.
C:\Windows\system32>

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