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1 /* cat -- concatenate files and print on the standard output.
2 Copyright (C) 1988-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Differences from the Unix cat:
18 * Always unbuffered, -u is ignored.
19 * Usually much faster than other versions of cat, the difference
20 is especially apparent when using the -v option.
22 By tege@sics.se, Torbjorn Granlund, advised by rms, Richard Stallman. */
24 #include <config.h>
26 #include <stdckdint.h>
27 #include <stdio.h>
28 #include <getopt.h>
29 #include <sys/types.h>
31 #if HAVE_STROPTS_H
32 # include <stropts.h>
33 #endif
34 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
36 #include "system.h"
37 #include "alignalloc.h"
38 #include "ioblksize.h"
39 #include "fadvise.h"
40 #include "full-write.h"
41 #include "safe-read.h"
42 #include "xbinary-io.h"
44 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
45 #define PROGRAM_NAME "cat"
47 #define AUTHORS \
48 proper_name ("Torbjorn Granlund"), \
49 proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman")
51 /* Name of input file. May be "-". */
52 static char const *infile;
54 /* Descriptor on which input file is open. */
55 static int input_desc;
57 /* Buffer for line numbers.
58 An 11 digit counter may overflow within an hour on a P2/466,
59 an 18 digit counter needs about 1000y */
60 #define LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN 20
61 static char line_buf[LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN] =
63 ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',
64 ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '0',
65 '\t', '\0'
68 /* Position in 'line_buf' where printing starts. This will not change
69 unless the number of lines is larger than 999999. */
70 static char *line_num_print = line_buf + LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN - 8;
72 /* Position of the first digit in 'line_buf'. */
73 static char *line_num_start = line_buf + LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN - 3;
75 /* Position of the last digit in 'line_buf'. */
76 static char *line_num_end = line_buf + LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN - 3;
78 /* Preserves the 'cat' function's local 'newlines' between invocations. */
79 static int newlines2 = 0;
81 /* Whether there is a pending CR to process. */
82 static bool pending_cr = false;
84 void
85 usage (int status)
87 if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
88 emit_try_help ();
89 else
91 printf (_("\
92 Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
93 "),
94 program_name);
95 fputs (_("\
96 Concatenate FILE(s) to standard output.\n\
97 "), stdout);
99 emit_stdin_note ();
101 fputs (_("\
103 -A, --show-all equivalent to -vET\n\
104 -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines, overrides -n\n\
105 -e equivalent to -vE\n\
106 -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line\n\
107 -n, --number number all output lines\n\
108 -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines\n\
109 "), stdout);
110 fputs (_("\
111 -t equivalent to -vT\n\
112 -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I\n\
113 -u (ignored)\n\
114 -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB\n\
115 "), stdout);
116 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
117 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
118 printf (_("\
120 Examples:\n\
121 %s f - g Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents.\n\
122 %s Copy standard input to standard output.\n\
124 program_name, program_name);
125 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME);
127 exit (status);
130 /* Compute the next line number. */
132 static void
133 next_line_num (void)
135 char *endp = line_num_end;
138 if ((*endp)++ < '9')
139 return;
140 *endp-- = '0';
142 while (endp >= line_num_start);
144 if (line_num_start > line_buf)
145 *--line_num_start = '1';
146 else
147 *line_buf = '>';
148 if (line_num_start < line_num_print)
149 line_num_print--;
152 /* Plain cat. Copy the file behind 'input_desc' to STDOUT_FILENO.
153 BUF (of size BUFSIZE) is the I/O buffer, used by reads and writes.
154 Return true if successful. */
156 static bool
157 simple_cat (char *buf, idx_t bufsize)
159 /* Loop until the end of the file. */
161 while (true)
163 /* Read a block of input. */
165 size_t n_read = safe_read (input_desc, buf, bufsize);
166 if (n_read == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
168 error (0, errno, "%s", quotef (infile));
169 return false;
172 /* End of this file? */
174 if (n_read == 0)
175 return true;
177 /* Write this block out. */
179 if (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, buf, n_read) != n_read)
180 write_error ();
184 /* Write any pending output to STDOUT_FILENO.
185 Pending is defined to be the *BPOUT - OUTBUF bytes starting at OUTBUF.
186 Then set *BPOUT to OUTPUT if it's not already that value. */
188 static inline void
189 write_pending (char *outbuf, char **bpout)
191 idx_t n_write = *bpout - outbuf;
192 if (0 < n_write)
194 if (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, outbuf, n_write) != n_write)
195 write_error ();
196 *bpout = outbuf;
200 /* Copy the file behind 'input_desc' to STDOUT_FILENO.
201 Use INBUF and read INSIZE with each call,
202 and OUTBUF and write OUTSIZE with each call.
203 (The buffers are a bit larger than the I/O sizes.)
204 The remaining boolean args say what 'cat' options to use.
206 Return true if successful.
207 Called if any option more than -u was specified.
209 A newline character is always put at the end of the buffer, to make
210 an explicit test for buffer end unnecessary. */
212 static bool
213 cat (char *inbuf, idx_t insize, char *outbuf, idx_t outsize,
214 bool show_nonprinting, bool show_tabs, bool number, bool number_nonblank,
215 bool show_ends, bool squeeze_blank)
217 /* Last character read from the input buffer. */
218 unsigned char ch;
220 /* Determines how many consecutive newlines there have been in the
221 input. 0 newlines makes NEWLINES -1, 1 newline makes NEWLINES 1,
222 etc. Initially 0 to indicate that we are at the beginning of a
223 new line. The "state" of the procedure is determined by
224 NEWLINES. */
225 int newlines = newlines2;
227 #ifdef FIONREAD
228 /* If nonzero, use the FIONREAD ioctl, as an optimization.
229 (On Ultrix, it is not supported on NFS file systems.) */
230 bool use_fionread = true;
231 #endif
233 /* The inbuf pointers are initialized so that BPIN > EOB, and thereby input
234 is read immediately. */
236 /* Pointer to the first non-valid byte in the input buffer, i.e., the
237 current end of the buffer. */
238 char *eob = inbuf;
240 /* Pointer to the next character in the input buffer. */
241 char *bpin = eob + 1;
243 /* Pointer to the position where the next character shall be written. */
244 char *bpout = outbuf;
246 while (true)
250 /* Write if there are at least OUTSIZE bytes in OUTBUF. */
252 if (outbuf + outsize <= bpout)
254 char *wp = outbuf;
255 idx_t remaining_bytes;
258 if (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, wp, outsize) != outsize)
259 write_error ();
260 wp += outsize;
261 remaining_bytes = bpout - wp;
263 while (outsize <= remaining_bytes);
265 /* Move the remaining bytes to the beginning of the
266 buffer. */
268 memmove (outbuf, wp, remaining_bytes);
269 bpout = outbuf + remaining_bytes;
272 /* Is INBUF empty? */
274 if (bpin > eob)
276 bool input_pending = false;
277 #ifdef FIONREAD
278 int n_to_read = 0;
280 /* Is there any input to read immediately?
281 If not, we are about to wait,
282 so write all buffered output before waiting. */
284 if (use_fionread
285 && ioctl (input_desc, FIONREAD, &n_to_read) < 0)
287 /* Ultrix returns EOPNOTSUPP on NFS;
288 HP-UX returns ENOTTY on pipes.
289 SunOS returns EINVAL and
290 More/BSD returns ENODEV on special files
291 like /dev/null.
292 Irix-5 returns ENOSYS on pipes. */
293 if (errno == EOPNOTSUPP || errno == ENOTTY
294 || errno == EINVAL || errno == ENODEV
295 || errno == ENOSYS)
296 use_fionread = false;
297 else
299 error (0, errno, _("cannot do ioctl on %s"),
300 quoteaf (infile));
301 newlines2 = newlines;
302 return false;
305 if (n_to_read != 0)
306 input_pending = true;
307 #endif
309 if (!input_pending)
310 write_pending (outbuf, &bpout);
312 /* Read more input into INBUF. */
314 size_t n_read = safe_read (input_desc, inbuf, insize);
315 if (n_read == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
317 error (0, errno, "%s", quotef (infile));
318 write_pending (outbuf, &bpout);
319 newlines2 = newlines;
320 return false;
322 if (n_read == 0)
324 write_pending (outbuf, &bpout);
325 newlines2 = newlines;
326 return true;
329 /* Update the pointers and insert a sentinel at the buffer
330 end. */
332 bpin = inbuf;
333 eob = bpin + n_read;
334 *eob = '\n';
336 else
338 /* It was a real (not a sentinel) newline. */
340 /* Was the last line empty?
341 (i.e., have two or more consecutive newlines been read?) */
343 if (++newlines > 0)
345 if (newlines >= 2)
347 /* Limit this to 2 here. Otherwise, with lots of
348 consecutive newlines, the counter could wrap
349 around at INT_MAX. */
350 newlines = 2;
352 /* Are multiple adjacent empty lines to be substituted
353 by single ditto (-s), and this was the second empty
354 line? */
355 if (squeeze_blank)
357 ch = *bpin++;
358 continue;
362 /* Are line numbers to be written at empty lines (-n)? */
364 if (number && !number_nonblank)
366 next_line_num ();
367 bpout = stpcpy (bpout, line_num_print);
371 /* Output a currency symbol if requested (-e). */
372 if (show_ends)
374 if (pending_cr)
376 *bpout++ = '^';
377 *bpout++ = 'M';
378 pending_cr = false;
380 *bpout++ = '$';
383 /* Output the newline. */
385 *bpout++ = '\n';
387 ch = *bpin++;
389 while (ch == '\n');
391 /* Here CH cannot contain a newline character. */
393 if (pending_cr)
395 *bpout++ = '\r';
396 pending_cr = false;
399 /* Are we at the beginning of a line, and line numbers are requested? */
401 if (newlines >= 0 && number)
403 next_line_num ();
404 bpout = stpcpy (bpout, line_num_print);
407 /* The loops below continue until a newline character is found,
408 which means that the buffer is empty or that a proper newline
409 has been found. */
411 /* If quoting, i.e., at least one of -v, -e, or -t specified,
412 scan for chars that need conversion. */
413 if (show_nonprinting)
415 while (true)
417 if (ch >= 32)
419 if (ch < 127)
420 *bpout++ = ch;
421 else if (ch == 127)
423 *bpout++ = '^';
424 *bpout++ = '?';
426 else
428 *bpout++ = 'M';
429 *bpout++ = '-';
430 if (ch >= 128 + 32)
432 if (ch < 128 + 127)
433 *bpout++ = ch - 128;
434 else
436 *bpout++ = '^';
437 *bpout++ = '?';
440 else
442 *bpout++ = '^';
443 *bpout++ = ch - 128 + 64;
447 else if (ch == '\t' && !show_tabs)
448 *bpout++ = '\t';
449 else if (ch == '\n')
451 newlines = -1;
452 break;
454 else
456 *bpout++ = '^';
457 *bpout++ = ch + 64;
460 ch = *bpin++;
463 else
465 /* Not quoting, neither of -v, -e, or -t specified. */
466 while (true)
468 if (ch == '\t' && show_tabs)
470 *bpout++ = '^';
471 *bpout++ = ch + 64;
473 else if (ch != '\n')
475 if (ch == '\r' && *bpin == '\n' && show_ends)
477 if (bpin == eob)
478 pending_cr = true;
479 else
481 *bpout++ = '^';
482 *bpout++ = 'M';
485 else
486 *bpout++ = ch;
488 else
490 newlines = -1;
491 break;
494 ch = *bpin++;
500 /* Copy data from input to output using copy_file_range if possible.
501 Return 1 if successful, 0 if ordinary read+write should be tried,
502 -1 if a serious problem has been diagnosed. */
504 static int
505 copy_cat (void)
507 /* Copy at most COPY_MAX bytes at a time; this is min
508 (SSIZE_MAX, SIZE_MAX) truncated to a value that is
509 surely aligned well. */
510 ssize_t copy_max = MIN (SSIZE_MAX, SIZE_MAX) >> 30 << 30;
512 /* copy_file_range does not support some cases, and it
513 incorrectly returns 0 when reading from the proc file
514 system on the Linux kernel through at least 5.6.19 (2020),
515 so fall back on read+write if the copy_file_range is
516 unsupported or the input file seems empty. */
518 for (bool some_copied = false; ; some_copied = true)
519 switch (copy_file_range (input_desc, nullptr, STDOUT_FILENO, nullptr,
520 copy_max, 0))
522 case 0:
523 return some_copied;
525 case -1:
526 if (errno == ENOSYS || is_ENOTSUP (errno) || errno == EINVAL
527 || errno == EBADF || errno == EXDEV || errno == ETXTBSY
528 || errno == EPERM)
529 return 0;
530 error (0, errno, "%s", quotef (infile));
531 return -1;
537 main (int argc, char **argv)
539 /* Nonzero if we have ever read standard input. */
540 bool have_read_stdin = false;
542 struct stat stat_buf;
544 /* Variables that are set according to the specified options. */
545 bool number = false;
546 bool number_nonblank = false;
547 bool squeeze_blank = false;
548 bool show_ends = false;
549 bool show_nonprinting = false;
550 bool show_tabs = false;
551 int file_open_mode = O_RDONLY;
553 static struct option const long_options[] =
555 {"number-nonblank", no_argument, nullptr, 'b'},
556 {"number", no_argument, nullptr, 'n'},
557 {"squeeze-blank", no_argument, nullptr, 's'},
558 {"show-nonprinting", no_argument, nullptr, 'v'},
559 {"show-ends", no_argument, nullptr, 'E'},
560 {"show-tabs", no_argument, nullptr, 'T'},
561 {"show-all", no_argument, nullptr, 'A'},
562 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
563 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
564 {nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0}
567 initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
568 set_program_name (argv[0]);
569 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
570 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
571 textdomain (PACKAGE);
573 /* Arrange to close stdout if we exit via the
574 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR or case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR code.
575 Normally STDOUT_FILENO is used rather than stdout, so
576 close_stdout does nothing. */
577 atexit (close_stdout);
579 /* Parse command line options. */
581 int c;
582 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "benstuvAET", long_options, nullptr))
583 != -1)
585 switch (c)
587 case 'b':
588 number = true;
589 number_nonblank = true;
590 break;
592 case 'e':
593 show_ends = true;
594 show_nonprinting = true;
595 break;
597 case 'n':
598 number = true;
599 break;
601 case 's':
602 squeeze_blank = true;
603 break;
605 case 't':
606 show_tabs = true;
607 show_nonprinting = true;
608 break;
610 case 'u':
611 /* We provide the -u feature unconditionally. */
612 break;
614 case 'v':
615 show_nonprinting = true;
616 break;
618 case 'A':
619 show_nonprinting = true;
620 show_ends = true;
621 show_tabs = true;
622 break;
624 case 'E':
625 show_ends = true;
626 break;
628 case 'T':
629 show_tabs = true;
630 break;
632 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
634 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
636 default:
637 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
641 /* Get device, i-node number, and optimal blocksize of output. */
643 if (fstat (STDOUT_FILENO, &stat_buf) < 0)
644 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("standard output"));
646 /* Optimal size of i/o operations of output. */
647 idx_t outsize = io_blksize (stat_buf);
649 /* Device and I-node number of the output. */
650 dev_t out_dev = stat_buf.st_dev;
651 ino_t out_ino = stat_buf.st_ino;
653 /* True if the output is a regular file. */
654 bool out_isreg = S_ISREG (stat_buf.st_mode) != 0;
656 if (! (number || show_ends || squeeze_blank))
658 file_open_mode |= O_BINARY;
659 xset_binary_mode (STDOUT_FILENO, O_BINARY);
662 /* Main loop. */
664 infile = "-";
665 int argind = optind;
666 bool ok = true;
667 idx_t page_size = getpagesize ();
671 if (argind < argc)
672 infile = argv[argind];
674 bool reading_stdin = STREQ (infile, "-");
675 if (reading_stdin)
677 have_read_stdin = true;
678 input_desc = STDIN_FILENO;
679 if (file_open_mode & O_BINARY)
680 xset_binary_mode (STDIN_FILENO, O_BINARY);
682 else
684 input_desc = open (infile, file_open_mode);
685 if (input_desc < 0)
687 error (0, errno, "%s", quotef (infile));
688 ok = false;
689 continue;
693 if (fstat (input_desc, &stat_buf) < 0)
695 error (0, errno, "%s", quotef (infile));
696 ok = false;
697 goto contin;
700 /* Optimal size of i/o operations of input. */
701 idx_t insize = io_blksize (stat_buf);
703 fdadvise (input_desc, 0, 0, FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL);
705 /* Don't copy a nonempty regular file to itself, as that would
706 merely exhaust the output device. It's better to catch this
707 error earlier rather than later. */
709 if (out_isreg
710 && stat_buf.st_dev == out_dev && stat_buf.st_ino == out_ino
711 && lseek (input_desc, 0, SEEK_CUR) < stat_buf.st_size)
713 error (0, 0, _("%s: input file is output file"), quotef (infile));
714 ok = false;
715 goto contin;
718 /* Pointer to the input buffer. */
719 char *inbuf;
721 /* Select which version of 'cat' to use. If any format-oriented
722 options were given use 'cat'; if not, use 'copy_cat' if it
723 works, 'simple_cat' otherwise. */
725 if (! (number || show_ends || show_nonprinting
726 || show_tabs || squeeze_blank))
728 int copy_cat_status =
729 out_isreg && S_ISREG (stat_buf.st_mode) ? copy_cat () : 0;
730 if (copy_cat_status != 0)
732 inbuf = nullptr;
733 ok &= 0 < copy_cat_status;
735 else
737 insize = MAX (insize, outsize);
738 inbuf = xalignalloc (page_size, insize);
739 ok &= simple_cat (inbuf, insize);
742 else
744 /* Allocate, with an extra byte for a newline sentinel. */
745 inbuf = xalignalloc (page_size, insize + 1);
747 /* Why are
748 (OUTSIZE - 1 + INSIZE * 4 + LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN)
749 bytes allocated for the output buffer?
751 A test whether output needs to be written is done when the input
752 buffer empties or when a newline appears in the input. After
753 output is written, at most (OUTSIZE - 1) bytes will remain in the
754 buffer. Now INSIZE bytes of input is read. Each input character
755 may grow by a factor of 4 (by the prepending of M-^). If all
756 characters do, and no newlines appear in this block of input, we
757 will have at most (OUTSIZE - 1 + INSIZE * 4) bytes in the buffer.
758 If the last character in the preceding block of input was a
759 newline, a line number may be written (according to the given
760 options) as the first thing in the output buffer. (Done after the
761 new input is read, but before processing of the input begins.)
762 A line number requires seldom more than LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN
763 positions.
765 Align the output buffer to a page size boundary, for efficiency
766 on some paging implementations. */
768 idx_t bufsize;
769 if (ckd_mul (&bufsize, insize, 4)
770 || ckd_add (&bufsize, bufsize, outsize)
771 || ckd_add (&bufsize, bufsize, LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN - 1))
772 xalloc_die ();
773 char *outbuf = xalignalloc (page_size, bufsize);
775 ok &= cat (inbuf, insize, outbuf, outsize, show_nonprinting,
776 show_tabs, number, number_nonblank, show_ends,
777 squeeze_blank);
779 alignfree (outbuf);
782 alignfree (inbuf);
784 contin:
785 if (!reading_stdin && close (input_desc) < 0)
787 error (0, errno, "%s", quotef (infile));
788 ok = false;
791 while (++argind < argc);
793 if (pending_cr)
795 if (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, "\r", 1) != 1)
796 write_error ();
799 if (have_read_stdin && close (STDIN_FILENO) < 0)
800 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("closing standard input"));
802 return ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;