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Pad stdout and stderr
Especially useful with CLI tools when you don't directly control the output.

$ npm install pad-stdio
import {padStdout} from 'pad-stdio';
padStdout(' '); // Start padding
console.log('foo');
padStdout(' ');
console.log('bar');
padStdout(); // End padding
console.log('baz');
/*
foo
bar
baz
*/
Pads each line of process.stdout with the given pad string until the method is called again with no arguments.
Pads each line of process.stderr with the given pad string until the method is called again with no arguments.
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Pad stdout and stderr
The npm package pad-stdio receives a total of 11,395 weekly downloads. As such, pad-stdio popularity was classified as popular.
We found that pad-stdio demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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