How to close a readable stream (before end)?

Question

How to close a readable stream in Node.js?

var input = fs.createReadStream(\'lines.txt\');

input.on(\'data\', function(data) {
   // after closing the strea         


        

Answer 1

You can clear and close the stream with yourstream.resume(), which will dump everything on the stream and eventually close it.

From the official docs:

readable.resume():

Return: this

This method will cause the readable stream to resume emitting 'data' events.

This method will switch the stream into flowing mode. If you do not want to consume the data from a stream, but you do want to get to its 'end' event, you can call stream.resume() to open the flow of data.

var readable = getReadableStreamSomehow();
readable.resume();
readable.on('end', () => {
  console.log('got to the end, but did not read anything');
});