Hi,
to print many pdf files without first opening them with the PDF wiewer, in a terminal type “lp” followed by a space, then select all the pdfs that you want to print and drag them to the terminal, enter.
Instead with
lpstat -p -d
You can see the printers installed, configured and available on the system, and also the default printer.
Lp is contained in the CUPS package
It also works with Jpeg.
To print all the pdfs in the current folder (open in the terminal)
lp *.pdf
I changed it in
lp * .pdf * .PDF
So it works whether the extension is uppercase or lowercase
On this site I found a script that allows you to print odd and even pages, I did not personally test it:
http://blog.marionline.it/linux/come-stampare-tanti-file-velocemente-bash/
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