dricottone / neopaste

Paste file streams side-by-side

neopaste

Paste file streams side-by-side, without concern for Unicode wide characters or ANSI color codes.

Usage

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.

Example

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

Dependencies

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.

Licensing

This software is distributed under the GPL license.