var fs = require('fs') var zlib = require('zlib') var strs = require('stringstream')
var utf8Stream = fs.createReadStream('massiveLogFile.gz')
.pipe(zlib.createGunzip()) .pipe(strs('utf8'))
utf8Stream.pipe(process.stdout)
// Stream from utf8 to hex to base64… Why not, ay. var hex64Stream = fs.createReadStream('myFile')
.pipe(strs('utf8', 'hex')) .pipe(strs('hex', 'base64'))
hex64Stream.pipe(process.stdout)
// Deals with base64 correctly by aligning chunks var stream = fs.createReadStream('myFile').pipe(strs('base64'))
var base64Str = ''
stream.on('data', function(data) { base64Str += data }) stream.on('end', function() {
console.log('My base64 encoded file is: ' + base64Str) // Wouldn't work with setEncoding() console.log('Original file is: ' + new Buffer(base64Str, 'base64'))
})