zlib-cli

zlib-cli

Simple CLI utility for the zlib compression format

Contains two complementary CLI utilities, one for compressing, the other for uncompressing i.e zlib-compress and zlib-uncompress.

• Note: Both utils:

• Read either from stdin or from a file on disk passed in as a path.
• Output their result to stdout.

Installation and usage

• zlib-compress

CLI utility to compress data in the zlib format. It takes in either a source file or content from stdin e.g

$ go get github.com/odeke-em/zlib-cli/cmd/zlib-compress
$ cat content | zlib-compress > output.compressed
$ zlib-compress ~/Downloads/fileUp > output.compressed

• zlib-uncompress

$ go get github.com/odeke-em/zlib-cli/cmd/zlib-uncompress
$ cat content.compressed | zlib-uncompress > uncompressed
$ zlib-uncompress content.compressed > uncompressed