ianstormtaylor / read-file-stdin

Read from a file, falling back to stdin.

read-file-stdin

Read from a file, falling back to stdin.

Installation

$ npm install read-file-stdin

API

read ([file], callback)

Read from a file, falling back to stdin, and callback(err, buffer).

License

MIT

read-file-stdin's Issues

Add option for stdin TTY hint

I like to announce a message like "I: now reading from stdin." when my programs are ready to read from stdin and it is a TTY, so in case of accidential missing filename, users never think the program hangs, but instead immediately see that their invocation went wrong.

Could you add an option stdinTtyHint that can accept a string to be printed to stderr, or a function to be called as soon as the pipe is set up?

An options object could be passed in the first slot instead of a filename, and the filename taken from the filename option. If you like the idea, I could make a PR for it.

Package size & version

The package is pretty big because it includes the 'test' directory, this has been fixed but never got published to NPM. Could you publish it?

While you are publishing it would be a good idea to bump the version to 1.0.0 since this package isn't in any kind of experimental state.

npmignore

Add please test to npm ignore