Converting a file to a JSON array

For some reason I need that. OK, not any reason. For integrating a CloudInit YAML file into an AWS CloudFormation template. By using this article as reference, I made a simple node.js script for doing just that.

#!/usr/bin/env node

var fs = require('fs');

fs.readFile(process.argv[2], function (err, file) {
	if (err) {
		console.error(err);
		process.exit(1);
	}
	file = file.toString().split('\n');
	var idx, aux = [];
	for (idx = 0; idx < file.length; idx++) {
		aux.push(file[idx]);
		aux.push('\n');
	}
	file = JSON.stringify(aux);
	console.log(file);
});

Save as something.js, make it an executable, then invoke it with ./something.js /path/to/file.

The end.