Simple command line programm to compress files using optimal huffman codes.
Generates the optimal huffman tree for a given file, compresses the file using that, and stores the tree in the resulting compressed file.
- You need cargo. If you don't have it installed already you can do so by following the steps from The Cargo Book
- Run
cargo install --git https://github.com/devensiv/huffman-codingto build the crate in a temporary target directory before installing the binaries in your cargo installation'sbinfolder. For more information check out the cargo install Book entry - Alternatively to 2. you can clone the repository move into
huffman-coding/in order to runcargo install --path .. This has the same effect as 2. but you are not building in a temporary target directory
You can update your installation by re running the cargo install command. (or pulling changes before if you went with 3.)
Encode file: huffman <original-file>
Decode file: huffman <compressed-file> -d
In case you want to uninstall the huffman-coding you can
- Run
cargo uninstall huffmanto remove the program - In case you installed
cargo(with rustup) just for this program and want to uninstall it too you can do so by runningrustup self uninstallwhich will uninstallrustupand all its components.