# safe-readfile

> readFile that ignores ENOENT.

Latest version **1.0.2** (published 2016-06-16) · Fair license · 0 weekly downloads

> **Deprecated.** This package is deprecated.

## Install

```sh
npm install safe-readfile
pnpm add safe-readfile
yarn add safe-readfile
bun add safe-readfile
```

## Health

**Score 10/100 (F)** — status: deprecated.

Negative: deprecated.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.2 |
| Published | 2016-06-16 |
| First published | 2014-11-03 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Fair |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Author | Talles L |
| Maintainers | talles |
| Keywords | safe, readfile, enoent |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/safe-readfile
- Repository: https://github.com/tallesl/node-safe-readfile
- Homepage: https://github.com/tallesl/node-safe-readfile#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/tallesl/node-safe-readfile/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/safe-readfile

## Recent versions

- 1.0.2 (latest) — 2016-06-16
- 1.0.1 — 2014-11-09
- 1.0.0 — 2014-11-03

## README

# safe-readfile

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A version of [fs.readFile] and [fs.readFileSync] that doesn't raise `ENOENT`.  
Returns `undefined` if the file doesn't exist and `''` if the file exists and it's empty.
    
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[devDependencies-img]: https://david-dm.org/tallesl/node-safe-readfile/dev-status.svg
[npm]:                 https://npmjs.com/package/safe-readfile
[npm-img]:             https://badge.fury.io/js/safe-readfile.svg
[fs.readFile]:         https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_readfile_file_options_callback
[fs.readFileSync]:     https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_readfilesync_file_options

## Usage

```js
$ npm install safe-readfile
(...)
$ node
> var safeReadFile = require('safe-readfile').readFile
undefined
> safeReadFile('nonexistent') // fs.readFile would throw ENOENT
undefined
```

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