Compression

This program is a command-line utility for compressing files using the Gzip format.

Requirements

Rust programming language

Usage

• To use this program, you'll need to have Rust programming language installed on your system. You can check if rust is installed by running the following command in the terminal

rustc --version

Once you have rust installed, you can run this program by following these steps:

• Open the terminal and navigate to the directory where the program's source code is located.
• Compile the program using the following command:

cargo build --release

• Run the program using the following command:

cargo run --release <source> <target>

• Replace with the path to the source file you want to compress and with the path where you want to save the compressed file.
• The program will compress the source file and create a new compressed file at the target location. It will also display the source and target file sizes, along with the time taken to compress the file.
• If you want to build the program and create the binary you can use the following command:

cargo build --release

• The binary will be located in the target/release directory.
• You can then run the binary like this:

./target/release/compression

• Alternatively, if you want to build the program without creating a binary you can use the following command:

cargo run --release

• This will run the program directly.
• Make sure that you have the right permissions to read and write in the source and target file directories.