github.com/dawkrish/compression-tool

Compression Tool

Inspired by this coding challenge

Installation

All the code blocks are meant to be run in a terminal

• Install Go You can download Go from [here]

• Install the binary

  go install github.com/dawkrish/compression-tool@latest
  

This will place the binary in GOPATH. You can check your GOPATH by typing the command go env

• Confirm

  which compression-tool
  

  should output something like

    /Users/<username>/go/bin/compression-tool
  

Usage

• There are only 2 flags

  • -h for help
  • -d for decompressing

• Example

  • ./compression-tool <file-name> : will compress the content of the file into a new file <file-name_compressed.txt>
  • ./compression-tool -d <file-name> : will decompress the content of the file into a new file <file-name_decompressed.txt>

Note : the -d flag must come before the <file-name>. You can look the reason for it [here]

Note that the flag package requires all flags to appear before positional arguments (otherwise the flags will be interpreted as positional arguments)

Contribution

The project was simple and small, but effective, if you face any issue, please raise an issue