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Merging Streams: Merging Text Files

Merging Streams: Merging Text Files

Learn how to merge streams using piping patterns.

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Merging is the opposite operation to forking and involves piping a set of Readable streams into a single Writable stream, as shown in the illustration given below.

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Merging streams
Merging streams

Merging multiple streams into one is, in general, a simple operation; however, we have to pay attention to the way we handle the end event because piping using the default options (according to which {end:true}) causes the destination stream to end as soon as one of the sources ends. This can often lead to an error because the ...