Lib.rs

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:

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

Example

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