Copy stdin to stdout
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Create an executable file that copies stdin to stdout, or else a script that does so through the invocation of an interpreter at the command line.
8086 Assembly
READ: equ 3Fh ; MS-DOS syscalls
WRITE: equ 40h
BUFSZ: equ 4000h ; Buffer size
cpu 8086
bits 16
org 100h
section .text
read: mov ah,READ ; Read into buffer
xor bx,bx ; From STDIN (file 0)
mov cx,BUFSZ
mov dx,buffer
int 21h
test ax,ax ; Did we read anything?
jz done ; If not, stop
xchg ax,cx ; Write as many bytes as read
mov ah,WRITE
inc bx ; To STDOUT (file 1)
int 21h
jmp read ; Go get more
done: ret
section .bss
buffer: resb BUFSZ
Action!
PROC Main()
CHAR c
DO
c=GetD(7)
Put(c)
UNTIL c=27 ;repeat until Esc key is pressed
OD
RETURN
- Output:
Screenshot from Atari 8-bit computer
COPY STDIN TO STDOUT
Ada
with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Copy_Stdin_To_Stdout is
use Ada.Text_IO;
C : Character;
begin
while not End_Of_File loop
Get_Immediate (C);
Put (C);
end loop;
end Copy_Stdin_To_Stdout;
Aime
file f;
data b;
f.stdin;
while (f.b_line(b) ^ -1) {
o_(b, "\n");
}
ALGOL 68
BEGIN
BOOL at eof := FALSE;
# set the EOF handler for stand in to a procedure that sets "at eof" to true #
# and returns true so processing can continue #
on logical file end( stand in, ( REF FILE f )BOOL: at eof := TRUE );
# copy stand in to stand out #
WHILE STRING line; read( ( line, newline ) ); NOT at eof DO write( ( line, newline ) ) OD
END
Applesoft BASIC
0 GET C$ : PRINT C$; : GOTO
AWK
Using the awk interpreter, the following command uses the pattern // (which matches anything) with the default action (which is to print the current line) and so copy lines from stdin to stdut.
awk "//"
BCPL
get "libhdr"
let start() be
$( let c = rdch()
if c = endstreamch then finish
wrch(c)
$) repeat
Brainf***
,[.,]
Binary Lambda Calculus
As explained on https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html, `cat' is the 4-bit program
0010
in bit-wise BLC, or any one of the 16 characters in the ASCII range from space to slash
!"#$%&'()*+,-./
in byte-wise BLC.
C
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int c;
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
putchar(c);
}
return 0;
}
C#
using System;
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.OpenStandardInput().CopyTo(Console.OpenStandardOutput());
}
}
C++
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
int main() {
using namespace std;
noskipws(cin);
copy(
istream_iterator<char>(cin),
istream_iterator<char>(),
ostream_iterator<char>(cout)
);
return 0;
}
Shorter and quicker alternative:
#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::cout << std::cin.rdbuf();
}
CLU
start_up = proc ()
pi: stream := stream$primary_input()
po: stream := stream$primary_output()
while true do
stream$putc(po, stream$getc(pi))
end except when end_of_file:
return
end
end start_up
Commodore BASIC
Commodore BASIC assigns device #0 (keyboard) as the standard input device, and device #3 (screen) as the standard output device. By opening channels for input and/or output, data can be sent to/from files, printers, and other peripheral devices. Although the keyboard and screen are the default input and output devices, they can be read from and written to using the same conventions as other devices, which is useful if a program wants to allow a user to direct output elsewhere (e.g. printing a hard copy of a report instead of displaying it on the screen)
Number | Device |
---|---|
0 | Keyboard |
1 | Datassette Tape Drive |
2 | User Port (RS-232) |
3 | Text Screen |
4 | IEC Bus Printers |
5 | |
6 | IEC Bus Plotters |
7 | |
8-30 | Floppy/Hard Disk Drives |
The following program opens channels to devices chosen by the user, then uses the GET# and PRINT# I/O statements instead of the standard GET and PRINT (for typical keyboard/screen interaction.) When keyboard and/or screen are chosen, BASIC ignores the extra filename and file type parameters normally used for other devices. Peripheral devices (tape, disk drive) use STATUS register to flag end of file, however the keyboard does not. When using the keyboard, the program terminates on a CTRL-Z.
10 print chr$(147);chr$(14);
11 print "0:Keyboard 1:Tape 2:RS-232 3:Screen"
12 print "4-7:printers/plotters"
13 print "8-11:Disk Drives":print
14 input "Input device";d1
15 if d1=1 or d1>=8 then input "Filename for INPUT";i$
16 input "Output device";d2
17 if d2=1 or d2>=8 then input "Filename for OUTPUT";o$
18 print:if d1=0 then print "Begin typing. Press CTRL-Z to end.":print
20 open 5,d1,5,"0:"+i$+",s,r"
30 open 2,d2,2,"@0:"+o$+",s,w"
40 get#5,a$
50 if (d1=0 and a$=chr$(26)) or (d1>0 and st>0) then close 5:close 2:end
60 print#2,a$;
70 goto 40
- Output:
The output sample below demonstrates the following device input-output combinations:
- Keyboard (0) to Screen (3)
- Keyboard (0) to Disk File (8)
- Disk File (8) to Screen (3)
0:Keyboard 1:Tape 2:RS-232 3:Screen 4-7:printers/plotters 8-11:Disk Drives Input device? 0 Output device? 3 Begin typing. Press CTRL-Z to end. Hello. This is so much fun on Rosetta Code! Goodbye! ready. run 0:Keyboard 1:Tape 2:RS-232 3:Screen 4-7:printers/plotters 8-11:Disk Drives Input device? 0 Output device? 8 Filename for OUTPUT? rosetta.txt Begin typing. Press CTRL-Z to end. [No echo of text because output is directed to file.] ready. run 0:Keyboard 1:Tape 2:RS-232 3:Screen 4-7:printers/plotters 8-11:Disk Drives Input device? 8 Filename for INPUT? rosetta.txt Output device? 3 These device numbers are unique to the Commodore line of 8-bit computers. ready. █
Common Lisp
#|Loops while reading and collecting characters from STDIN until EOF (C-Z or C-D)
Then concatenates the characters into a string|#
(format t
(concatenate 'string
(loop for x = (read-char *query-io*) until (or (char= x #\Sub) (char= x #\Eot)) collecting x)))
Crystal
STDIN.each_line do |line|
puts line
end
D
import std.stdio;
void main() {
foreach (line; stdin.byLine) {
writeln(line);
}
}
Dart
import 'dart:io';
void main() {
var line = stdin.readLineSync();
stdout.write(line);
}
Delphi
→ See Pascal
Draco
\util.g
proc nonrec main() void:
char c;
while
/* I/O is line-oriented, so first read characters
* from the current line while that is possible */
while read(c) do write(c) od;
case ioerror()
/* Then once it fails, if the line is empty,
* try to go to the next line. */
incase CH_MISSING:
readln();
writeln();
true
/* If it failed for another reason (which will be
* EOF here), stop. */
default:
false
esac
do od
corp
F#
let copy()=let n,g=stdin,stdout
let rec fN()=match n.ReadLine() with "EOF"->g.Write "" |i->g.WriteLine i; fN()
fN()
copy()
Factor
USING: io kernel ;
[ read1 dup ] [ write1 ] while drop
Forth
stdin slurp-fid type bye
FreeBASIC
#define FIN 255 'eof is already a reserved word
#include "crt/stdio.bi" 'provides the C functions getchar and putchar
dim as ubyte char
do
char = getchar()
if char = FIN then exit do else putchar(char)
loop
Frink
The special string "-" indicates reading from stdin.
print[read["-"]]
FutureBasic
This code uses FileHandles to interact with standard input and standard output. It continuously reads from standard input and writes to standard output until it reaches the end of input.
// Create file handles for standard input and output
FileHandleRef stdIn = fn FileHandleWithStandardInput
FileHandleRef stdOut = fn FileHandleWithStandardOutput
// Continuously read from standard input…
while (YES)
CFDataRef availableData = fn FileHandleAvailableData( stdIn )
if ( fn DataLength( availableData ) == 0 )
break // End of input
end if
// … and write to standard output
fn FileHandleWriteData( stdOut, availableData, NULL )
wend
Go
package main
import (
"bufio"
"io"
"os"
)
func main() {
r := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
w := bufio.NewWriter(os.Stdout)
for {
b, err := r.ReadByte()
if err == io.EOF {
return
}
w.WriteByte(b)
w.Flush()
}
}
io.Copy
package main
import (
"io"
"os"
)
func main() {
io.Copy(os.Stdout, os.Stdin)
}
Groovy
class StdInToStdOut {
static void main(args) {
try (def reader = System.in.newReader()) {
def line
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
println line
}
}
}
}
Haskell
main = interact id
Java
Copies until no more input.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class CopyStdinToStdout {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try (Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);) {
String s;
while ( (s = scanner.nextLine()).compareTo("") != 0 ) {
System.out.println(s);
}
}
}
}
Alternative, concise version (Java 9+):
public class CopyStdinToStdout {
public static void main(String[] args) throws java.io.IOException {
System.in.transferTo(System.out);
}
}
- Output:
Output interleaved. Stdin and Stdout are same window.
Line 1. Line 1. Line 2. Line 2.
JavaScript
JavaScript in the browser does not have a stdin or stdout, but using Node.js we have:
process.stdin.resume();
process.stdin.pipe(process.stdout);
node index.js < index.js
- Output:
process.stdin.resume(); process.stdin.pipe(process.stdout);
jq
jq -Rr .
Julia
while !eof(stdin)
write(stdout, read(stdin, UInt8))
end
Kotlin
fun main() {
var c: Int
do {
c = System.`in`.read()
System.out.write(c)
} while (c >= 0)
}
Latitude
while { $stdin eof? not. } do {
$stdout putln: $stdin readln.
}.
Lua
lua -e 'for x in io.lines() do print(x) end'
Mercury
:- module stdin_to_stdout.
:- interface.
:- import_module io.
:- pred main(io::di, io::uo) is det.
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------%
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------%
:- implementation.
:- import_module char.
:- import_module list.
:- import_module string.
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------%
main(!IO) :-
io.read_line_as_string(Result, !IO),
(
Result = ok(Line),
io.write_string(Line, !IO),
main(!IO)
;
Result = eof
;
Result = error(Error),
io.error_message(Error, Message),
io.input_stream_name(StreamName, !IO),
io.progname("stdin_to_stdout", ProgName, !IO),
io.write_strings([
ProgName, ": ",
"error reading from `", StreamName, "': \n\t",
Message, "\n"
], !IO)
).
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------%
Nim
stdout.write readAll(stdin)
OCaml
try
while true do
output_char stdout (input_char stdin)
done
with End_of_file -> ()
Ol
(bytestream->port (port->bytestream stdin) stdout)
Pascal
program writeInput(input, output);
var
buffer: char;
begin
while not EOF() do
begin
read(buffer); // shorthand for read(input, buffer)
write(buffer); // shorthand for write(output, buffer)
end;
end.
PascalABC.NET
See C#
##
Console.OpenStandardInput().CopyTo(Console.OpenStandardOutput());
Perl
perl -pe ''
Phix
without js while true do integer ch = wait_key() if ch=#1B then exit end if puts(1,ch) end while
PicoLisp
(in NIL (echo))
Prolog
%File: stdin_to_stdout.pl
:- initialization(main).
main :- repeat,
get_char(X),
put_char(X),
X == end_of_file,
fail.
Invocation at the command line (with Swi-prolog):
swipl stdin_to_stdout.pl
Python
python -c 'import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.stdin.read())'
R
Rscript -e 'cat(readLines(file("stdin")))'
Racket
#lang racket
(let loop ()
(match (read-char)
[(? eof-object?) (void)]
[c (display c)
(loop)]))
Raku
(formerly Perl 6) When invoked at a command line: Slightly less magical than Perl / sed. The p flag means automatically print each line of output to STDOUT. The e flag means execute what follows inside quotes. ".lines" reads lines from the assigned pipe (file handle), STDIN by default.
raku -pe'.lines'
When invoked from a file: Lines are auto-chomped, so need to re-add newlines (hence .say rather than .print)
.say for lines
Refal
$ENTRY Go {
, <Card>: {
0 = ;
e.Line = <Go <Prout e.Line>>;
};
};
REXX
In the REXX language, the STDIN (default input stream) is normally the console, and the STDOUT (default output stream) is normally the console. So for REXX, this task equates to copying data from the console to itself.
/*REXX pgm copies data from STDIN──►STDOUT (default input stream──►default output stream*/
do while chars()\==0 /*repeat loop until no more characters.*/
call charin , x /*read a char from the input stream. */
call charout , x /*write " " " " output " */
end /*while*/ /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */
Ring
? "give input: " give str
? "output: " + str
- Output:
give input: Ring Programming Language output: Ring Programming Language
Ruby
$stdout << $stdin.gets
Rust
use std::io;
fn main() {
io::copy(&mut io::stdin().lock(), &mut io::stdout().lock());
}
Scala
For Scala 2's compiler scalac
, a containing object is required:
object CopyStdinToStdout extends App {
io.Source.fromInputStream(System.in).getLines().foreach(println)
}
If it's being run directly by scala
, it can be shortened to one line, and run directly in the shell:
scala -e "io.Source.fromInputStream(System.in).getLines().foreach(println)"
Scheme
(do ((c (read-char) (read-char)))
((eof-object? c) 'done)
(display c))
sed
sed -e ''
Seed7
$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
include "fileutil.s7i";
const proc: main is func
begin
copyFile(IN, OUT);
end func;
Smalltalk
"using Stream class's bulk copy method:"
Stdin copyToEndInto:Stdout.
"line wise"
[Stdin atEnd] whileFalse:[ Stdout nextPutLine:(Stdin nextLine) ].
"character wise"
[Stdin atEnd] whileFalse:[ Stdout nextPut:(Stdin next) ].
"no EOF test, but handle EOF Exception"
[
[ Stdout nextPut:(Stdin next) ] loop.
] on: StreamError do:[]
Standard ML
fun copyLoop () =
case TextIO.input TextIO.stdIn of
"" => ()
| tx => copyLoop (TextIO.output (TextIO.stdOut, tx))
val () = copyLoop ()
Symsyn
Loop [] []
go Loop
Tcl
package require Tcl 8.5
chan copy stdin stdout
# fcopy stdin stdout for older versions
VBScript
VBScript can't get single chars from stdin, so we have to implement it line to line. Ctrl-Z+Enter stops.
do
s=wscript.stdin.readline
wscript.stdout.writeline s
loop until asc(left(s,1))=26
Wren
In the following script, stdin and stdout are both assumed to be connected to a terminal.
Bytes are read from stdin and written to stdout until the return key is pressed.
import "io" for Stdin, Stdout
Stdin.isRaw = true // prevents echoing to the terminal
while (true) {
var byte = Stdin.readByte() // read a byte from stdin
if (byte == 13) break // break when enter key pressed
System.write(String.fromByte(byte)) // write the byte (in string form) to stdout
Stdout.flush() // flush output
}
System.print()
Stdin.isRaw = false
XPL0
Device 1 is stdin without echoing a character to the screen. Device 0 (or 1) is stdout, which displays the character on the monitor. This program can list a file to the screen like this: stdio <file.txt
int C;
loop [C:= ChIn(1);
if C = $1A \EOF\ then quit;
ChOut(0, C);
]
zkl
zkl --eval "File.stdout.write(File.stdin.read())"
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