read pipe input from keyboard

Question

This is very basic, sorry if this is a duplicate, but search results give me something opposite.

I want to paste lines as an input to a pipe. How can I do it?

For example I want to use this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/18141152/2361465 to sum a line of numbers. I could save my numbers into a file and do

cat numbers.txt | paste -sd+ - | bc

But my numbers are in the clipboard. Or they are in my head and I want to enter them manually. How do I feed them as the input without saving to a file?

I don't want the shell to read the Ubuntu clipboard, I want some command ??? that after execution waits for the input (with some way of indicating its end) and then passes it to the pipe.

??? | paste -sd+ - | bc

Answer 1

You don't need anything else - just type

paste -sd+ | bc

then hit ENTER after which you can type or paste the numbers (separated by newlines), ending your input with CTRL+D

$ paste -sd+ | bc
1.23
4.56
7.89
13.68

Alternatively, use a here document

$ paste -sd+ <<EOF | bc
> 1.23
> 4.56
> 7.89
> EOF
13.68