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