yybit / nu_plugin_compress

A nushell plugin for compression and decompression, supporting zstd, gzip, bzip2, and xz.

nu_plugin_compress

A nushell plugin for compression and decompression, supporting zstd, gzip, bzip2, and xz. Require nushell >= 0.98.0.

Status

Supported compression formats include:

Type	Compress Command	Decompress Command
gzip	to gz	from gz
zstd	to zst	from zst
xz	to xz	from xz
bzip2	to bz2	from bz2

Installation

cargo install nu_plugin_compress
plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_compress
plugin use compress

Usage

# compress and save
"hello" | to gz | save hello.gz
# compress with level 7, Default level is 3
"hello" | to xz -l 7
# decompress and print
open hello.gz | decode
# archive and compress
tar cvf - hello.txt | to gz | save hello.tar.gz
# decompress and unarchive
open hello.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Example

> open hello.gz
Length: unknown (stream) | printable whitespace ascii_other non_ascii
00000000:   68 65 6c 6c  6f                                      hello