snappy-cli

README

snappy-cli

Simple CLI utility for the snappy compression format

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

• snappy-compress

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

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

• snappy-uncompress

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