A script to replicate an issue with stream writing.

streamWrite.js

'use strict';


// Dependencies
//
var fs          = require('fs'),
    oldFilePath = 'oldFile.txt',
    read        = fs.createReadStream(oldFilePath),
    write       = fs.createWriteStream('./.newFile.txt');


// Generate the oldFile first with some example content
//
fs.writeFile(oldFilePath, 'Example Content to write here\n', function (err) {

    if (err) {

        throw err;

    } else {

        // Write the file out
        //
        read.pipe(write);

    }

});

this works..

var fs = require('fs')
fs.writeFile('log.txt', "Example Content\n", function (err) {
  if (err) throw err
  fs.createReadStream('./log.txt').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./.new_log.txt'))
})

Thanks. I copied that and ran it on my machine, it didn't work. I'm running v0.10.20 on Mac OS X 10.8.5.

Ignore me. I was using ls -ll to list files, rather than ls -la.