1 /* paste - merge lines of files
2 Copyright (C) 1997-2024 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 <https://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>
46 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
47 #define PROGRAM_NAME "paste"
50 proper_name ("David M. Ihnat"), \
51 proper_name ("David MacKenzie")
53 /* Indicates that no delimiter should be added in the current position. */
54 #define EMPTY_DELIM '\0'
56 /* If nonzero, we have read standard input at some point. */
57 static bool have_read_stdin
;
59 /* If nonzero, merge subsequent lines of each file rather than
60 corresponding lines from each file in parallel. */
61 static bool serial_merge
;
63 /* The delimiters between lines of input files (used cyclically). */
66 /* A pointer to the character after the end of 'delims'. */
67 static char const *delim_end
;
69 static unsigned char line_delim
= '\n';
71 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
73 {"serial", no_argument
, nullptr, 's'},
74 {"delimiters", required_argument
, nullptr, 'd'},
75 {"zero-terminated", no_argument
, nullptr, 'z'},
76 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
77 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
78 {nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0}
81 /* Set globals delims and delim_end. Copy STRPTR to DELIMS, converting
82 backslash representations of special characters in STRPTR to their actual
83 values. The set of possible backslash characters has been expanded beyond
84 that recognized by the Unix version.
85 Return 0 upon success.
86 If the string ends in an odd number of backslashes, ignore the
87 final backslash and return nonzero. */
90 collapse_escapes (char const *strptr
)
92 char *strout
= xstrdup (strptr
);
93 bool backslash_at_end
= false;
99 if (*strptr
!= '\\') /* Is it an escape character? */
100 *strout
++ = *strptr
++; /* No, just transfer it. */
106 *strout
++ = EMPTY_DELIM
;
138 backslash_at_end
= true;
152 return backslash_at_end
? 1 : 0;
155 /* Output a single byte, reporting any write errors. */
164 /* Perform column paste on the NFILES files named in FNAMPTR.
165 Return true if successful, false if one or more files could not be
169 paste_parallel (size_t nfiles
, char **fnamptr
)
172 /* If all files are just ready to be closed, or will be on this
173 round, the string of delimiters must be preserved.
174 delbuf[0] through delbuf[nfiles]
175 store the delimiters for closed files. */
176 char *delbuf
= xmalloc (nfiles
+ 2);
178 /* Streams open to the files to process; null if the corresponding
180 FILE **fileptr
= xnmalloc (nfiles
+ 1, sizeof *fileptr
);
182 /* Number of files still open to process. */
185 /* True if any fopen got fd == STDIN_FILENO. */
186 bool opened_stdin
= false;
188 /* Attempt to open all files. This could be expanded to an infinite
189 number of files, but at the (considerable) expense of remembering
190 each file and its current offset, then opening/reading/closing. */
192 for (files_open
= 0; files_open
< nfiles
; ++files_open
)
194 if (STREQ (fnamptr
[files_open
], "-"))
196 have_read_stdin
= true;
197 fileptr
[files_open
] = stdin
;
201 fileptr
[files_open
] = fopen (fnamptr
[files_open
], "r");
202 if (fileptr
[files_open
] == nullptr)
203 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotef (fnamptr
[files_open
]));
204 else if (fileno (fileptr
[files_open
]) == STDIN_FILENO
)
206 fadvise (fileptr
[files_open
], FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL
);
210 if (opened_stdin
&& have_read_stdin
)
211 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("standard input is closed"));
213 /* Read a line from each file and output it to stdout separated by a
214 delimiter, until we go through the loop without successfully
215 reading from any of the files. */
219 /* Set up for the next line. */
220 bool somedone
= false;
221 char const *delimptr
= delims
;
222 size_t delims_saved
= 0; /* Number of delims saved in 'delbuf'. */
224 for (size_t i
= 0; i
< nfiles
&& files_open
; i
++)
226 int chr
; /* Input character. */
227 int err
; /* Input errno value. */
228 bool sometodo
= false; /* Input chars to process. */
232 chr
= getc (fileptr
[i
]);
234 if (chr
!= EOF
&& delims_saved
)
236 if (fwrite (delbuf
, 1, delims_saved
, stdout
) != delims_saved
)
244 if (chr
== line_delim
)
247 chr
= getc (fileptr
[i
]);
254 /* EOF, read error, or closed file.
255 If an EOF or error, close the file. */
258 if (!ferror (fileptr
[i
]))
260 if (fileptr
[i
] == stdin
)
261 clearerr (fileptr
[i
]); /* Also clear EOF. */
262 else if (fclose (fileptr
[i
]) == EOF
&& !err
)
266 error (0, err
, "%s", quotef (fnamptr
[i
]));
270 fileptr
[i
] = nullptr;
276 /* End of this output line.
277 Is this the end of the whole thing? */
280 /* No. Some files were not closed for this line. */
283 if (fwrite (delbuf
, 1, delims_saved
, stdout
)
288 xputchar (line_delim
);
290 continue; /* Next read of files, or exit. */
294 /* Closed file; add delimiter to 'delbuf'. */
295 if (*delimptr
!= EMPTY_DELIM
)
296 delbuf
[delims_saved
++] = *delimptr
;
297 if (++delimptr
== delim_end
)
303 /* Some data read. */
306 /* Except for last file, replace last newline with delim. */
309 if (chr
!= line_delim
&& chr
!= EOF
)
311 if (*delimptr
!= EMPTY_DELIM
)
312 xputchar (*delimptr
);
313 if (++delimptr
== delim_end
)
318 /* If the last line of the last file lacks a newline,
319 print one anyhow. POSIX requires this. */
320 char c
= (chr
== EOF
? line_delim
: chr
);
331 /* Perform serial paste on the NFILES files named in FNAMPTR.
332 Return true if no errors, false if one or more files could not be
336 paste_serial (size_t nfiles
, char **fnamptr
)
338 bool ok
= true; /* false if open or read errors occur. */
339 int charnew
, charold
; /* Current and previous char read. */
340 char const *delimptr
; /* Current delimiter char. */
341 FILE *fileptr
; /* Open for reading current file. */
343 for (; nfiles
; nfiles
--, fnamptr
++)
346 bool is_stdin
= STREQ (*fnamptr
, "-");
349 have_read_stdin
= true;
354 fileptr
= fopen (*fnamptr
, "r");
355 if (fileptr
== nullptr)
357 error (0, errno
, "%s", quotef (*fnamptr
));
361 fadvise (fileptr
, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL
);
364 delimptr
= delims
; /* Set up for delimiter string. */
366 charold
= getc (fileptr
);
370 /* 'charold' is set up. Hit it!
371 Keep reading characters, stashing them in 'charnew';
372 output 'charold', converting to the appropriate delimiter
373 character if needed. After the EOF, output 'charold'
374 if it's a newline; otherwise, output it and then a newline. */
376 while ((charnew
= getc (fileptr
)) != EOF
)
378 /* Process the old character. */
379 if (charold
== line_delim
)
381 if (*delimptr
!= EMPTY_DELIM
)
382 xputchar (*delimptr
);
384 if (++delimptr
== delim_end
)
394 /* Hit EOF. Process that last character. */
398 if (charold
!= line_delim
)
399 xputchar (line_delim
);
401 if (!ferror (fileptr
))
404 clearerr (fileptr
); /* Also clear EOF. */
405 else if (fclose (fileptr
) != 0 && !saved_errno
)
409 error (0, saved_errno
, "%s", quotef (*fnamptr
));
419 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
424 Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
428 Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from\n\
429 each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.\n\
433 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
436 -d, --delimiters=LIST reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs\n\
437 -s, --serial paste one file at a time instead of in parallel\n\
440 -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline\n\
442 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
443 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
444 /* FIXME: add a couple of examples. */
445 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
451 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
454 char const *delim_arg
= "\t";
456 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
457 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
458 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
459 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
460 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
462 atexit (close_stdout
);
464 have_read_stdin
= false;
465 serial_merge
= false;
467 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "d:sz", longopts
, nullptr)) != -1)
472 /* Delimiter character(s). */
473 delim_arg
= (optarg
[0] == '\0' ? "\\0" : optarg
);
484 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
486 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
489 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
493 int nfiles
= argc
- optind
;
496 argv
[optind
] = bad_cast ("-");
500 if (collapse_escapes (delim_arg
))
502 /* Don't use the quote() quoting style, because that would double the
503 number of displayed backslashes, making the diagnostic look bogus. */
504 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0,
505 _("delimiter list ends with an unescaped backslash: %s"),
506 quotearg_n_style_colon (0, c_maybe_quoting_style
, delim_arg
));
509 bool ok
= ((serial_merge
? paste_serial
: paste_parallel
)
510 (nfiles
, &argv
[optind
]));
514 if (have_read_stdin
&& fclose (stdin
) == EOF
)
515 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "-");
516 return ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
;