1 /* paste - merge lines of files
2 Copyright (C) 1997-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Copyright (C) 1984 David M. Ihnat
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18 /* Written by David Ihnat. */
20 /* The list of valid escape sequences has been expanded over the Unix
21 version, to include \b, \f, \r, and \v.
23 POSIX changes, bug fixes, long-named options, and cleanup
24 by David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
28 -s Paste one file at a time rather than
29 one line from each file.
30 --delimiters=delim-list
31 -d delim-list Consecutively use the characters in
32 DELIM-LIST instead of tab to separate
33 merged lines. When DELIM-LIST is exhausted,
34 start again at its beginning.
35 A FILE of '-' means standard input.
36 If no FILEs are given, standard input is used. */
42 #include <sys/types.h>
47 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
48 #define PROGRAM_NAME "paste"
51 proper_name ("David M. Ihnat"), \
52 proper_name ("David MacKenzie")
54 /* Indicates that no delimiter should be added in the current position. */
55 #define EMPTY_DELIM '\0'
57 /* If nonzero, we have read standard input at some point. */
58 static bool have_read_stdin
;
60 /* If nonzero, merge subsequent lines of each file rather than
61 corresponding lines from each file in parallel. */
62 static bool serial_merge
;
64 /* The delimiters between lines of input files (used cyclically). */
67 /* A pointer to the character after the end of 'delims'. */
68 static char const *delim_end
;
70 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
72 {"serial", no_argument
, NULL
, 's'},
73 {"delimiters", required_argument
, NULL
, 'd'},
74 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
75 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
79 /* Set globals delims and delim_end. Copy STRPTR to DELIMS, converting
80 backslash representations of special characters in STRPTR to their actual
81 values. The set of possible backslash characters has been expanded beyond
82 that recognized by the Unix version.
83 Return 0 upon success.
84 If the string ends in an odd number of backslashes, ignore the
85 final backslash and return nonzero. */
88 collapse_escapes (char const *strptr
)
90 char *strout
= xstrdup (strptr
);
91 bool backslash_at_end
= false;
97 if (*strptr
!= '\\') /* Is it an escape character? */
98 *strout
++ = *strptr
++; /* No, just transfer it. */
104 *strout
++ = EMPTY_DELIM
;
136 backslash_at_end
= true;
150 return backslash_at_end
? 1 : 0;
153 /* Report a write error and exit. */
155 static void write_error (void) ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN
;
159 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, _("write error"));
163 /* Output a single byte, reporting any write errors. */
172 /* Perform column paste on the NFILES files named in FNAMPTR.
173 Return true if successful, false if one or more files could not be
177 paste_parallel (size_t nfiles
, char **fnamptr
)
180 /* If all files are just ready to be closed, or will be on this
181 round, the string of delimiters must be preserved.
182 delbuf[0] through delbuf[nfiles]
183 store the delimiters for closed files. */
184 char *delbuf
= xmalloc (nfiles
+ 2);
186 /* Streams open to the files to process; NULL if the corresponding
188 FILE **fileptr
= xnmalloc (nfiles
+ 1, sizeof *fileptr
);
190 /* Number of files still open to process. */
193 /* True if any fopen got fd == STDIN_FILENO. */
194 bool opened_stdin
= false;
196 /* Attempt to open all files. This could be expanded to an infinite
197 number of files, but at the (considerable) expense of remembering
198 each file and its current offset, then opening/reading/closing. */
200 for (files_open
= 0; files_open
< nfiles
; ++files_open
)
202 if (STREQ (fnamptr
[files_open
], "-"))
204 have_read_stdin
= true;
205 fileptr
[files_open
] = stdin
;
209 fileptr
[files_open
] = fopen (fnamptr
[files_open
], "r");
210 if (fileptr
[files_open
] == NULL
)
211 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotef (fnamptr
[files_open
]));
212 else if (fileno (fileptr
[files_open
]) == STDIN_FILENO
)
214 fadvise (fileptr
[files_open
], FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL
);
218 if (opened_stdin
&& have_read_stdin
)
219 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("standard input is closed"));
221 /* Read a line from each file and output it to stdout separated by a
222 delimiter, until we go through the loop without successfully
223 reading from any of the files. */
227 /* Set up for the next line. */
228 bool somedone
= false;
229 char const *delimptr
= delims
;
230 size_t delims_saved
= 0; /* Number of delims saved in 'delbuf'. */
233 for (i
= 0; i
< nfiles
&& files_open
; i
++)
235 int chr
IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Input character. */
236 int err
IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Input errno value. */
237 bool sometodo
= false; /* Input chars to process. */
241 chr
= getc (fileptr
[i
]);
243 if (chr
!= EOF
&& delims_saved
)
245 if (fwrite (delbuf
, 1, delims_saved
, stdout
) != delims_saved
)
256 chr
= getc (fileptr
[i
]);
263 /* EOF, read error, or closed file.
264 If an EOF or error, close the file. */
267 if (ferror (fileptr
[i
]))
269 error (0, err
, "%s", quotef (fnamptr
[i
]));
272 if (fileptr
[i
] == stdin
)
273 clearerr (fileptr
[i
]); /* Also clear EOF. */
274 else if (fclose (fileptr
[i
]) == EOF
)
276 error (0, errno
, "%s", quotef (fnamptr
[i
]));
286 /* End of this output line.
287 Is this the end of the whole thing? */
290 /* No. Some files were not closed for this line. */
293 if (fwrite (delbuf
, 1, delims_saved
, stdout
)
300 continue; /* Next read of files, or exit. */
304 /* Closed file; add delimiter to 'delbuf'. */
305 if (*delimptr
!= EMPTY_DELIM
)
306 delbuf
[delims_saved
++] = *delimptr
;
307 if (++delimptr
== delim_end
)
313 /* Some data read. */
316 /* Except for last file, replace last newline with delim. */
319 if (chr
!= '\n' && chr
!= EOF
)
321 if (*delimptr
!= EMPTY_DELIM
)
322 xputchar (*delimptr
);
323 if (++delimptr
== delim_end
)
328 /* If the last line of the last file lacks a newline,
329 print one anyhow. POSIX requires this. */
330 char c
= (chr
== EOF
? '\n' : chr
);
341 /* Perform serial paste on the NFILES files named in FNAMPTR.
342 Return true if no errors, false if one or more files could not be
346 paste_serial (size_t nfiles
, char **fnamptr
)
348 bool ok
= true; /* false if open or read errors occur. */
349 int charnew
, charold
; /* Current and previous char read. */
350 char const *delimptr
; /* Current delimiter char. */
351 FILE *fileptr
; /* Open for reading current file. */
353 for (; nfiles
; nfiles
--, fnamptr
++)
356 bool is_stdin
= STREQ (*fnamptr
, "-");
359 have_read_stdin
= true;
364 fileptr
= fopen (*fnamptr
, "r");
367 error (0, errno
, "%s", quotef (*fnamptr
));
371 fadvise (fileptr
, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL
);
374 delimptr
= delims
; /* Set up for delimiter string. */
376 charold
= getc (fileptr
);
380 /* 'charold' is set up. Hit it!
381 Keep reading characters, stashing them in 'charnew';
382 output 'charold', converting to the appropriate delimiter
383 character if needed. After the EOF, output 'charold'
384 if it's a newline; otherwise, output it and then a newline. */
386 while ((charnew
= getc (fileptr
)) != EOF
)
388 /* Process the old character. */
391 if (*delimptr
!= EMPTY_DELIM
)
392 xputchar (*delimptr
);
394 if (++delimptr
== delim_end
)
404 /* Hit EOF. Process that last character. */
411 if (ferror (fileptr
))
413 error (0, saved_errno
, "%s", quotef (*fnamptr
));
417 clearerr (fileptr
); /* Also clear EOF. */
418 else if (fclose (fileptr
) == EOF
)
420 error (0, errno
, "%s", quotef (*fnamptr
));
430 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
435 Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
439 Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from\n\
440 each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.\n\
444 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
447 -d, --delimiters=LIST reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs\n\
448 -s, --serial paste one file at a time instead of in parallel\n\
450 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
451 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
452 /* FIXME: add a couple of examples. */
453 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
459 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
463 char const *delim_arg
= "\t";
465 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
466 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
467 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
468 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
469 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
471 atexit (close_stdout
);
473 have_read_stdin
= false;
474 serial_merge
= false;
476 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "d:s", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
481 /* Delimiter character(s). */
482 delim_arg
= (optarg
[0] == '\0' ? "\\0" : optarg
);
489 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
491 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
494 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
499 argv
[argc
++] = bad_cast ("-");
501 if (collapse_escapes (delim_arg
))
503 /* Don't use the quote() quoting style, because that would double the
504 number of displayed backslashes, making the diagnostic look bogus. */
505 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0,
506 _("delimiter list ends with an unescaped backslash: %s"),
507 quotearg_n_style_colon (0, c_maybe_quoting_style
, delim_arg
));
511 ok
= paste_parallel (argc
- optind
, &argv
[optind
]);
513 ok
= paste_serial (argc
- optind
, &argv
[optind
]);
517 if (have_read_stdin
&& fclose (stdin
) == EOF
)
518 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "-");
519 return ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
;