The bash scripts requires coreutils and Imagemagick. This are common on a *UNIX system, but not very common on Windows. This rewrite was built with cross-platform libraries so it should work on every system where you can find Rust.

I tried to keep the dependencies as low as possible, that's why I used argh and regress instead of the more popular clap and regex crates.

To install file2png, you can use cargo install file2png or build it from source.

To build from source, first

git clone https://github.com/meguminloli/file2png

To build it for release,

cargo build --release

To debug it,

cargo build

On my system, the build (with all the dependencies) takes less than 12 seconds in release.

For smaller binaries and maybe improved performance, check out min-sized-rust.

To store a file as a png:

file2png store <input> <output>

To append comments to resulting metadata:

file2png store <input> <output> --comments <comment> --comments <comment> ..

To restore a png:

file2png restore <input>

This will restore the png to the original file name. To choose the resulting file name

file2png restore <input> --output <output>

To check the metadata

file2png info <input>

This project is licensed under GPLv3, because the original script was under the same license.