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0.1.1 May 22, 2021
0.1.0 May 22, 2021

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zclib

Zlib command line interface.

Installation

Using prebuilt binaries

Check out the releases page for prebuilt versions of zclib for many different architectures.

From source

To build from source, first make sure you have the Rust toolchan installed. Then just use Cargo:

cargo install --locked zclib

Usage

zclib 0.1.0
Zlib command line interface

USAGE:
    zclib [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [FILE]

FLAGS:
    -b, --best          Best (slowest) compression
    -d, --decompress    Decompress
    -f, --fast          Fastest (worst) compression
    -h, --help          Prints help information
    -V, --version       Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -l, --level <level>    Compressing level (0-9)

ARGS:
    <FILE>    File

Compressing a file

zclib file > file.zlib

The input file can also be read from stdin:

zclib < file > file.zlib
echo "Hello World" | zclib > hello.zlib

Decompressing a file

echo "Hello World" | zclib > hello.zlib
zclib -d hello.zlib > hello

Credits

All the credits are given to the contributors of the flate2, since I didn't implement any part of the zlib algorithim.

The rest of the credits goes to the clap library, which is just made of awesomeness.

In short this is just a glue between flate2 and clap ;P

Dependencies

~1MB
~12K SLoC