de(c)ompressor
the de(c)ompressor operates on streams compression streams automagically. input streams are detected by magic numbers, output streams are determined by cli flags (or decompress to plain text if none given).
supported compression formats
- plain text
- brotli
- deflate
- gzip
- xz
- zlib
- zstd
example usage
$ echo "this is a test" | gzip | c
# this is a test
$ echo "this is a test" | gzip | c -o brotli | brotli -c -d
# this is a test
# brotli cannot be autodetected, so hint it
$ echo "this is a test" | brotli -c | c brotli
# this is a test
# without hint: `�%R�B�[d��`
help
git:(mistress) | ▶ c --help
Usage: c [OPTIONS] [HINT]
Arguments:
[HINT] Hint for the compression type, e.g. `brotli` [default: unknown]
Options:
-q, --quiet
-o, --output-type <OUTPUT_TYPE> Force the output to be compressed with the given type, e.g. `brotli` [default: none] [possible values: zstd, brotli, gzip, deflate, zlib, xz, none]
-h, --help Print help
git:(mistress) | ▶
de(c)ompressor must be run via stdin/out pipes, otherwise it will fail:
git:(mistress) 7 | ▶ c
Error:
0: input is a terminal, please pipe data via stdin!
Location:
src/main.rs:36
Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.
git:(mistress) | ▶
