A simple file compressor using Rust.

• https://youtu.be/81om1sAmHGg

Compresses files by using Huffman encoding.

Right now only txt. However, the code is simple enough to use with pretty much any file type, just requires a little bit of fine-tuning. The idea is to show how to write a simple encoding/decoding program.

cargo run [input_file.txt] [output_key.txt] [output_file.bin] cargo run [input_file.bin] [input_key.txt] [decoded_file.txt]

Encode: user@computer:~/ cargo run -- -e "example_txt/war_and_peace.txt" "key.txt" "war_and_peace.bin"

File compression percentage: 145.35601197750995 Old file size: 3226652 (in bytes) After file size: 2219827 (in bytes)

Decode: user@computer:~/ cargo run -- -d "war_and_peace.bin" "key.txt" "decoded.txt"

This can surely be optimized. It was one of my first projects in Rust, so I am sure I will look back in agony at how poorly it was done. However, that is a problem for future me.

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