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# Setup
You can compress, decompress, inspect, and benchmark standalone .pco files using the CLI.
Follow this setup:
1. Install Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
2. (optional but recommended for best performance on x86) [Configure the instruction sets available](../pco/README.md#compilation-notes)
3. `cargo install pco_cli`
This provides you with the `pcodec` command.
# Command Info
You can always get help, e.g. `pcodec`, `pcodec compress --help`.
## Bench
This command runs benchmarks, taking in data you provide and printing out
compression time, decompression time, and compression ratio for whatever
codecs you request.
```shell
pcodec bench -i my_input_data.parquet
pcodec bench \
-i my_input_data.csv \
--csv-has-header \
--codecs pco:level=9,parquet:compression=zstd4 \
--dtypes f32 \
--datasets foo,bar \
--iters 7 \
--limit 999999 \
--save-dir ./tmp
pcodec bench --binary-dir ./data
```
### Setting up synthetic data
One way to generate test data from a wide variety of processes and
distributions is from the `generate_randoms.py` script in the pcodec
repository.
To run it, set up a python3 environment with `numpy` installed.
In that environment, `cd`'d in to the root of the repo,
run `python pco_cli/generate_randoms.py`.
This will populate some human-readable data in `data/txt/` and
the exact same numerical data as bytes in `data/binary/`.
Unless other input is provided, `pcodec bench` will search the
`./data/binary/` path.
## Compress
This command compresses a single column of a .csv or .parquet file into a .pco
file.
Examples:
```shell
pcodec compress --csv my.csv --col-name my_column out.pco
pcodec compress --parquet my.snappy.parquet --col-name my_column out.pco
pcodec compress \
--csv my.csv \
--col-idx 0 \
--csv-has-header \
--dtype u32 \
--level 7 \
--overwrite \
out.pco
pcodec compress \
--csv time_series.csv \
--col-name temperature \
--dtype f32 \
--delta-order 3 \
out.pco
```
## Decompress
This command prints numbers in a .pco file to stdout.
Examples:
```shell
pcodec decompress --limit 256 in.pco
```
## Inspect
This command prints out information about a .pco file.
Examples:
```shell
% pcodec inspect in.pco
```