HUFFMAN ENCODING/DECODING CLI

this is merely a hobby project and should not be used in any professional environment. This tool only decodes files encoded using itself. It will probably produce nonsense if used elsewhere

A simple CLI tool that encodes and decodes (text) files using the huffman compressing algorithm.

BUILDING

1. clone this repository
2. in the root directory run go build -o huffman-cli
3. wait
4. move to the next step (USAGE)

USAGE

./huffman-cli <action> -i <input-file-name> -o <output-file-name>

example usage:

./huffman-cli encode -i example.txt -o encoded.bin

./huffman-cli decode -i encoded.bin -o decoded.txt

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From few observations, the compression works best on larger files. On smaller files, it produces bigger files than the original since it is storing meta-data in the encoded file (for decoding).