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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
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file-firstline-replace
Advanced tools
Replace the first line of a file with something else.
If you need to replace the first line in a file, this module will allow you to do that. Particularly built for CSVs, https://github.com/madwire-media/lets-make-csvs, but you can use it for anything.
npm install file-firstline-replace
var filename = "thing.csv"
var newHeader = `"foo","bar","baz","bang"`
replaceFirstLineOfFile(filename, newHeader, function(err) {
if (err) throw err
/* ... */
})
FAQs
Replace the first line of a file with something else.
The npm package file-firstline-replace receives a total of 122 weekly downloads. As such, file-firstline-replace popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that file-firstline-replace demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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