Huffman

A simple Huffman coding implementation in Rust for file compression.

Description

This project provides two command-line utilities, encode and decode, which use Huffman coding to compress and decompress files, respectively.

Usage

To use the application, you first need to build it.

Building

cargo build --release

The executable will be located at target/release/huffman.

Git LFS Setup

This project uses Git LFS to manage large image files (e.g., .png, .raw).

1. Install Git LFS

Ensure Git LFS is installed on your machine.

2. Initialize and Pull

Run the following commands to set up LFS and download the image assets:

git lfs install
git lfs pull

Encoding a file

To encode a file, use the encode command with the input and output file paths.

./target/release/huffman encode <input_file> <output_file>

For example:

./target/release/huffman encode my_document.txt my_document.huff

Decoding a file

To decode a file that was previously encoded, use the decode command.

./target/release/huffman decode <input_file> <output_file>

For example:

./target/release/huffman decode my_document.huff my_document.txt