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# pump
pump is a small node module that pipes streams together and destroys all of them if one of them closes.
``` npm install pump ```
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## What problem does it solve?
When using standard `source.pipe(dest)` source will _not_ be destroyed if dest emits close or an error. You are also not able to provide a callback to tell when then pipe has finished.
pump does these two things for you
## Usage
Simply pass the streams you want to pipe together to pump and add an optional callback
``` js var pump = require('pump') var fs = require('fs')
var source = fs.createReadStream('/dev/random') var dest = fs.createWriteStream('/dev/null')
pump(source, dest, function(err) { console.log('pipe finished', err) })
setTimeout(function() { dest.destroy() // when dest is closed pump will destroy source }, 1000) ```
You can use pump to pipe more than two streams together as well
``` js var transform = someTransformStream()
pump(source, transform, anotherTransform, dest, function(err) { console.log('pipe finished', err) }) ```
If `source`, `transform`, `anotherTransform` or `dest` closes all of them will be destroyed.
Similarly to `stream.pipe()`, `pump()` returns the last stream passed in, so you can do:
``` return pump(s1, s2) // returns s2 ```
If you want to return a stream that combines *both* s1 and s2 to a single stream use [pumpify](https://github.com/mafintosh/pumpify) instead.
## License
MIT
## Related
`pump` is part of the [mississippi stream utility collection](https://github.com/maxogden/mississippi) which includes more useful stream modules similar to this one.
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