Description

Compress/Decompress, Encode and Decode any file to a z85 string. Useful to store binaries in text format, for NFC cards/stickers/keychains or anywhere you want.

Build

cargo build --release

Usage

# Encode a file to z85 (stdout)
byteme encode raw.txt

# Encode and save to file
byteme encode raw.txt -o encoded.txt

# Pipe into encode
cat myimage.png | byteme encode -o encoded.txt

# Decode from file
byteme decode encoded.txt

# Decode and save to file
byteme decode encoded.txt -o raw.txt

# Pipe into decode
echo 'C?JLE:sHu(Qc%Y#!z.8[04z%)###00' | byteme decode

# Pipe into decode and save to file
echo 'C?JLE:sHu(Qc%Y#!z.8[04z%)###00' | byteme decode -o raw.txt

Options

-o, --output <path>   Write to file instead of stdout
-h, --help            Show help message

Encryption

Encrypt a file using gpg and process with byteme

# Interactive mode
gpg -c --no-symkey-cache raw.txt
# Non-interactive mode
gpg --batch --passphrase 'somepass' -c raw.txt

Now run the steps above but using <filename>.gpg instead.

Decryption

gpg -d raw.txt.gpg