I have done an sudo apt-get install snappy on Ubuntu 14.04 and now every time I try and run the command snappy textfile.txt to compress textfile.txt. I get an error saying:
** (snappy:14342): ERROR **: Error discovering URI: This appears to be a text file. Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
Anyone have any clue why this happened?
If I am doing it wrong, please show me a proper way to compress the text file with snappy.
You installed the snappy movie player and it complains when you try to open a text file instead of a media file. To install the snappy compression library you have to
sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev
There are no default command line tools for snappy compression, you have to make your own or install another tool (or be anal and create a Perl one liner). I use Python for compression or the wrapper found at https://github.com/kubo/snzip
Supported languages can be found here: https://google.github.io/snappy/