how to close stdin?

[AJ ONeal]

stdin = process.openStdin() // that's fun

stdin.end() // hmm... not as cool

How do I close stdin without waiting for ctrl+d?

AJ ONeal

[Nathan Rajlich]

Why do you need to close stdin? Seems like an unconventional thing to do. But this *might* work:

  fs.closeSync(0);

Side note: you can just access `process.stdin` directly (for a while) now.

AJ ONeal

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[AJ ONeal]

I'm trying to implement this common cli usage:

node dostuff.js /to/a/file.ext

echo 'blah' | node dostuff.js

node dostuff.js

> type or paste it in

And I want it so that unlike grep and other apps that "leave you hangin'" it will auto close and display the usage after 3 seconds of no input.

AJ ONeal

[Scott González]

I use process.stdin.destroy(). I wish there were a way to put stdin back to its original state, which is paused, but allows Node to exit when nothing else is waiting...

AJ ONeal

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[Scott González]

What version of node are you using? You should be opening stdin with process.stdin.resume();

AJ ONeal

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[Ben Noordhuis]

process.stdin.pause()

[Scott González]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Ben Noordhuis <in...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote:

process.stdin.pause()

If that's how you close stdin, why does this script never exit?

process.stdin.resume();
process.stdin.pause();

[Ben Noordhuis]

2012/1/21 Scott González <scott.g...@gmail.com>:

You need to upgrade, that bug was fixed in v0.6.6.

[Scott González]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Ben Noordhuis <in...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote:

You need to upgrade, that bug was fixed in v0.6.6.

That makes more sense. Thanks.

[AJ ONeal]

`stdin.resume()` and `stdin.pause()` work for me.

I don't believe that the latest documentation mentions this.

AJ ONeal

2012/1/20 Scott González <scott.g...@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Ben Noordhuis <in...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote:

You need to upgrade, that bug was fixed in v0.6.6.

That makes more sense. Thanks.

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[Ben Noordhuis]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 06:28, AJ ONeal <cool...@gmail.com> wrote:
> `stdin.resume()` and `stdin.pause()` work for me.
>
> I don't believe that the latest documentation mentions this.

"A Readable Stream for stdin. The stdin stream is paused by default,
so one must call process.stdin.resume() to read from it."[1]

I'm open to suggestions if you think it could be phrased better.

[1] http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.8/api/process.html#process.stdin

[AJ ONeal]

I understand that since it inherits from stream, one should know that `pause` is how to "close" it, but for the sake of clarity for people who haven't had enough of their coffee or cocoa yet that day I would suggest adding:

`process.stdin.pause` will "close" `stdin`.

AJ ONeal