Module cli 

CLI module for the slab file maintenance tool.

This module implements the slab binary, a command-line interface for creating, inspecting, and transforming slabtastic files. Each subcommand lives in its own child module and is dispatched by run.

Subcommands

Command	Description
analyze	Display file structure and statistics
check	Validate a slab file for structural errors
get	Retrieve records by ordinal (hex, base64, or raw output)
import	Import records from external formats (CSV, JSON, etc.)
export	Export records to external formats or another slab file
append	Append records from stdin or a source file
rewrite	Repack a slab file with new page settings
explain	Display block diagrams of page layouts
namespaces	List all namespaces in a slab file
completions	Generate shell completions (bash, zsh, fish, etc.)

Helpers

• ProgressReporter — optional stderr progress line for long-running commands.
• make_writer_config — build a WriterConfig from optional CLI flags, falling back to defaults.
• write_with_buffer_rename — atomic write via a .buffer temp file followed by rename.

Modules

analyze

slab analyze subcommand — display file structure and statistics.

append

slab append subcommand — append data to an existing slabtastic file.

check

slab check subcommand — validate slabtastic file structure.

explain

slab explain subcommand — render page layouts as block diagrams.

export

slab export subcommand — export content from a slab file.

get

slab get subcommand — retrieve records by ordinal.

import

slab import subcommand — import data from external file formats into a slab file.

namespaces

slab namespaces subcommand — list all namespaces in a slab file.

ordinal_range

Ordinal range parser for CLI commands.

rewrite

slab rewrite subcommand — rewrite a slabtastic file, reordering by ordinal and repacking to new page settings in a single pass.

Structs

Cli

slab — slabtastic file maintenance tool

ProgressReporter

Optional progress reporter that prints record counts to stderr.

Enums

Command

Available subcommands.

Functions

is_new_file

Return true when the target path does not yet exist, meaning the operation will create a new file (as opposed to appending).

make_writer_config

Build a WriterConfig from optional CLI flags, falling back to defaults.

run

Dispatch to the appropriate subcommand.

write_with_buffer_rename

Write to a .buffer suffixed temporary file, then rename to the target path on success.