Compress

A simple CLI compression utility powered by Rust.

Why

I wanted to create a useful program that was written in Rust. Primarily meant as a learning experience in writing tools in Rust.

Constraints

• Written in Rust
• Must have pretty CLI args
• Must be able to compress and decompress input
• Must be expandable to support multiple algorithms

Usage

Simple compress tool for quick CLI STDIN compression/decompression

Usage: compress [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -d, --decompress             Decompress the IO stream
  -a, --algorithm <ALGORITHM>  Which algorithm should we use [default: gzip] [possible values: gzip, zlib, deflate]
  -h, --help                   Print help
  -V, --version                Print version

# This should compress and decompress the source code using gzip
cat src/main.rs | ./compress | ./compress -d

# This should compress and decompress the source code using zlib
cat src/main.rs | ./compress -a zlib | ./compress -d -a zlib

Build

wowie, what crazy documentation cargo build --release