nu-compress

This is a library for easily compressing various directories and file types implemented in nushell!

It's effectively just a wrapper around other tools like ffmpeg or zstd to hopefully reduce the amount of times I have to copy, paste, and modify my previous commands to be slightly different.

Dependencies (available in PATH)

• ffmpeg: >=7(?)
  • compress image *
  • compress video *
• zstd: ^1
  • compress * zst
• bzip3: ^1
  • compress * bz3

Usage

1. Install the project (files) somewhere somehow (todo)
2. Run use compress
3. Run a compress command

Commands

For usage, see the help info for the commands:

Images

compress image av1 --help

Videos

compress video av1 --help

Files

compress file zst --help

compress file bz3 --help

Directories

Creates a compressed tar file containing the specified directory.

compress dir zst --help

compress dir bz3 --help

Todo

• standardize options
  • compression effort (--preset, --level) -> --effort
  • quality (--level) -> --quality
  • add --lossless to where valid
    • webp
  • make every command accept multiple files
  • add --silent
• more commands
  • files/dirs
    • zstd
    • bzip3
    • bzip2
    • gzip
  • images
    • av1
    • webp
    • jpegxl
    • png
    • jpeg
  • videos
    • av1
    • h265
    • h264
  • audio?
    • ogg?
    • something else?
    • mp3?