Read all text from stdin to a string

Question

I\'m writing a program in Node.js that (in some situations) wants to act as a simple filter: read everything from stdin (up to end of file), do some processing, write the re

Answer 1

My boiler-plate for this one is a lot like the solution described in a comment above -- offering it at the top level because it's very much the simplest way to do this and it shouldn't be only in a comment.

var fs = require('fs');
var data = fs.readFileSync(0, 'utf-8');
// Data now points to a buffer containing the file's contents