PREZIP-BIN(1)

✨ prezip-bin — the word list compressor/decompressor 💖

okay bestie, so this is prezip-bin from the Aspell Abbreviated User's Manual, and it's literally the little prefix-zip delta word list compressor/decompressor that feeds your spellchecker. it's giving tiny-tool-big-energy 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

prezip-bin — prefix zip delta word list compressor/decompressor 🦋

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💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

prezip-bin [ -V | -d | -z ]

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so prezip-bin squishes (compresses) and un-squishes (decompresses) sorted word lists, reading from standard input and writing to standard output. no files, no drama, just stdin ➡️ stdout ✨

prezip-bin is like word-list-compress(1)'s cooler cousin, except it allows a way bigger character set of {0x00...0x09, 0x0B, 0x0C, 0x0E...0xFF} and it handles multi-words larger than 255 characters in length 👑 (yes bestie, 255+, we're not like other compressors).

it can also decompress word-list-compress(1)-compatible files, so it plays nice with the old stuff 🫶

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🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

prezip-bin accepts only one of these commands. one. that's the vibe check. pick one 💅

• -V — display the prezip-bin version number to standard output. that's it, that's the whole job ✨
• -d — read a compressed word list from standard input and decompress it to standard output. this can be a word-list-compress(1) file or a prezip-bin compressed file 💖
• -z — read a binary word list from standard input and compress it to standard output. compression era 🦋

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🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

prezip-bin -d <wordlist.cwl >wordlist.txt

decompress file wordlist.cwl to text file wordlist.txt — unzipping but make it cute 💅

prezip-bin -z <wordlist.txt >wordlist.pz 2>errors.txt

compress wordlist.txt to binary file wordlist.pz and send any error messages to a text file named errors.txt 😭 (the 2> is doing the heavy lifting here, bestie)

LC_COLLATE=C sort -u <wordlist.txt | prezip-bin -z >wordlist.pz

sort a word list, then pipe it to prezip-bin to create a compressed binary wordlist.pz file. sort then zip, in that order, no cap 🔥

prezip-bin -d <words.pz | aspell create master ./words.rws

decompress a word list, then pipe it to aspell(1) to create a spelling list. please check the aspell(1) info manual for proper usage and options — do your homework bestie 📚

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🦋 TIPS 🦋

prezip-bin is best used with sorted word list type files. it is not a general purpose compression program, since resulting files may actually increase in size 💀 (yes, bigger. it said what it said.)

unlike word-list-compress(1), if your word list has leading or trailing blank spaces for formatting purposes, you should remove them first before you compress your list using prezip-bin -z, otherwise those spaces will be included in the compressed binary output 🙈

no fr fr, strip the spaces first. the spaces are not invited to the party.

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💜 DIAGNOSTICS 💜

prezip-bin normally exits with a return code of 0. if it encounters an error, a message is sent to standard error output (stderr), and prezip-bin exits with a non-zero return value. error messages are listed below 👇

• (display help/usage message) — unknown command given on the command line, so prezip-bin displays a usage message to standard error output. it's basically saying "girl what" 😭
• unknown format — the input file appears not to be an expected format, or may possibly be a more advanced format. the output file will be empty. nothing. void. 💀
• corrupt input — this is only for the decompression command -d. the input file appeared to be of a correct format, but something appears wrong now. there may be some valid data in output, but due to input corruption, the rest of the file can not be completed 😭
• unexpected EOF — the input file appeared okay but ended sooner than expected, therefore the output file is not complete. it just… stopped. mid-sentence. iconic in a bad way 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

aspell(1), aspell-import(1), run-with-aspell(1), word-list-compress(1)

Aspell is fully documented in its Texinfo manual. see the aspell entry in info for more complete documentation 📖

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💖 REPORTING BUGS 💖

for help, see the Aspell homepage at <http://aspell.net>. send bug reports/comments to the Aspell user list at the above address 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this info page was written by Jose Da Silva <digital@joescat.com>. thank you for your service, legend ⭐

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go compress something sorted and slay 💅✨

sign-off time: this was prezip-bin-0.1.2, dated 2005-09-30, and yes it's still serving looks from the Aspell Abbreviated User's Manual 🎀