Compression Tool

Overview

This is a Huffman compression and decompression tool implemented in Go. It provides a simple command-line interface to compress and decompress files using Huffman encoding.

Features

• Compress text files using Huffman encoding.
• Decompress files back to their original text format.
• Handles UTF-8 encoded input.
• Uses cli flags for input/output files and compress/decompress.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/nobletk/compression_tool.git
   cd compression_tool

2. Install dependencies:

   go mod tidy

Usage

Build

To build the project, use the Makefile:

make build

Compress file

To compress a text file:

go run ./cmd/app -i= filepath/input_file.txt -o=output_file.txt -c

Decompress file

To decompress a text file:

go run ./cmd/app -i= filepath/input_file.txt -o=output_file.txt -d

Testing

make test