Golang : zlib compress file example
This tutorial will show you how to read an uncompress file content into a buffer, use zlib on the buffer and write out the buffer content into a new file.
Here we go :
package main
import (
"bufio"
"bytes"
"compress/zlib"
"flag"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
)
func main() {
flag.Parse() // get the arguments from command line
filename := flag.Arg(0)
if filename == "" {
fmt.Println("Usage : go-zlib sourcefile")
os.Exit(1)
}
rawfile, err := os.Open(filename)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
defer rawfile.Close()
// calculate the buffer size for rawfile
info, _ := rawfile.Stat()
var size int64 = info.Size()
rawbytes := make([]byte, size)
// read rawfile content into buffer
buffer := bufio.NewReader(rawfile)
_, err = buffer.Read(rawbytes)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
var buf bytes.Buffer
writer := zlib.NewWriter(&buf)
writer.Write(rawbytes)
writer.Close()
err = ioutil.WriteFile(filename+".zlib", buf.Bytes(), info.Mode())
// use 0666 to replace info.Mode() if you prefer
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
fmt.Printf("%s compressed to %s\n", filename, filename+".zlib")
}
References :
http://golang.org/pkg/compress/zlib/
https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-read-binary-file-into-memory
By Adam Ng
IF you gain some knowledge or the information here solved your programming problem. Please consider donating to the less fortunate or some charities that you like. Apart from donation, planting trees, volunteering or reducing your carbon footprint will be great too.
Advertisement
Tutorials
+5.7k Golang : Check if password length meet the requirement
+11.1k Golang : convert(cast) string to integer value
+2.8k Java : Random alphabets, alpha-numeric or numbers only string generator
+12.8k Golang: Pad right or print ending(suffix) zero or spaces in fmt.Printf example
+6.1k Javascript : How to get JSON data from another website with JQuery or Ajax ?
+5k Fix ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'IP address' (111)
+4.8k PHP : Get client IP address
+5.2k PageSpeed : Clear or flush cache on web server
+7.2k Golang : HTTP Server Example
+4.6k Golang : Get S3 or CloudFront object or file information
+28k Golang : missing Git command
+14.6k Golang : Convert date format and separator yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy