compress

Compressing Algorithms on Golang

Overview

This work was carried out as part of laboratory work in the course Algorithms and Data Structures. I did everything in Go, and since I am not a professional coder in this language, some of my writing decisions may be controversial. Basic compression algorithms are implemented here. At the moment, everything is implemented only within the framework of working with a text file. In the future I plan to add image compression and refine some existing algorithms for working with text. The implementation is not stable and may crash. which will be fixed later.

Start Up

Linux

Clone reposytory:

$ git clone https://github.com/Shetami/compress.git

Building the code into a binary file:

$ go build

If you don't have Go installed and configured, you can do this from the official documentation.

Select a directory for your binary: Typically this will be /usr/local/bin, but you can choose any other directory that is in your PATH variable or create your own.

$ sudo cp [your_file_path] /usr/local/bin/[your_file]

Add your command execution to your .bashrc or .bash_profile file: These files are located in your home directory. If you are using another shell such as Zsh, use the appropriate file for it.

Next we set the global variable:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Update changes: Run source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile to make the changes take effect in the current terminal session.

$ source ~/.bashrc

Usage

$ compress [param] [file_path]

All available flags are called by the help command.

$ compress -h