The most important event for a readable stream is 'readable'.
readable event is raised when there is new data to be read from a stream.
We can call the read function on the stream to read data from the stream.
If this is the end of the stream, the read function returns null.
Save the following code as basic.js.
process.stdin.on('readable', function () {
var buf = process.stdin.read();
if (buf != null) {
console.log('Got:');
process.stdout.write(buf.toString());
} else {
console.log('Read complete!');
}
});
The following code shows how we pipe data into process.stdin from the command line.
$ echo 'foo bar bas' | node basic.js Got: 'foo bar bas' Read complete!
To write to a stream, call write to write some data.
When you have finished writing, call end.
You can write some data using the end member function.
var fs = require('fs');
var ws = fs.createWriteStream('message.txt');
ws.write('this is a test');
ws.end('bas');