Paste file streams side-by-side, without concern for Unicode wide characters or ANSI color codes.
npaste [OPTIONS] [FILE ..]
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
--delimiter DELIM |
Delimit columns using DELIM (default: tab) |
--left |
Left-justify columns (default) |
--right |
Right-justify columns |
--center |
Center columns |
--help |
Print help message |
--version |
Print software version |
If FILE is -, or if no FILEs, read from STDIN.
Now, a core tenet of neopaste is compatibility with ANSI color codes. None of
which, of course, appear below. In fact, the use of unbuffer likely seems
strange. Please pretend that there are colors below.
$ npaste -d ' ' \
<(df -h | grep -e '^Filesystem' -e '^/dev') \
<(unbuffer cal) \
<(wego | head -7)
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on June 2020 Weather for Buffalo, US
/dev/sda3 220G 178G 31G 86% / Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
/dev/sda2 511M 62M 450M 13% /boot 1 2 3 4 5 6 _`/"".-. light rain
/dev/sdc1 916G 101G 769G 12% /hdd 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ,\_( ). 73 (75) °F
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 /(___(__) ↑ 5 mph
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ʻ ʻ ʻ ʻ
28 29 30 ʻ ʻ ʻ ʻ 0.0 in/h
My recommendation is to install this software through pipx, which will manage runtime dependencies for you.
The only runtime dependency is wcwidth, available from PyPI through pip.
Testing and build dependencies are setuptools and gap.
This software is distributed under the GPL license.