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A sample of NodeJS Pipe to copy a video file.
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piping-video.js
const { createReadStream, createWriteStream } = require('fs');
const readStream = createReadStream(__dirname+'/powder-day.mp4');
const writeStream = createWriteStream(__dirname+'/copy.mp4' );
// Pipe, will handle backpressure automatically
readStream
.pipe(writeStream)
.on('error', console.error);
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