A simple Rust-based compression tool that uses the DEFLATE algorithm to compress files into Gzip format.

• Written in Rust
• Fun
• Uses flate2 for compression
• DEFLATE algorithm, which combines LZ77 and Huffman coding. The output format is Gzip (.gz)
• ~80 LoC

cargo build

cargo run

❯ ./shrust compress . Compressed to: archive.tar.gz ❯ ./shrust show archive.tar.gz 1.txt test/ test/test.txt ❯ ./shrust decompress archive.tar.gz ❯ ls archive.tar.gz output shrust ❯ ls output 1.txt test