#gzip #zstd

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A nushell plugin for compression and decompression, supporting zstd, gzip, bzip2, and xz

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0.1.0 Sep 21, 2024

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nu_plugin_compress

A nushell plugin for compression and decompression, supporting zstd, gzip, bzip2, and xz. Require nushell >= 0.98.0.

Status

Supported compression formats include:

Type Compress Command Decompress Command
gzip to gz from gz
zstd to zst from zst
xz to xz from xz
bzip2 to bz2 from bz2

Installation

cargo install nu_plugin_compress
plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_compress
plugin use compress

Usage

# compress and save
"hello" | to gz | save hello.gz
# compress with level 7, Default level is 3
"hello" | to xz -l 7
# decompress and print
open hello.gz | decode

Example

> open hello.gz
Length: unknown (stream) | printable whitespace ascii_other non_ascii
00000000:   68 65 6c 6c  6f                                      hello

Dependencies

~29–63MB
~1M SLoC