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Code snippet for zipping and converting to base64
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create-zip-with-base64.ts
import fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import shell from 'shelljs';
export const createZipWithBase64 = (user_id: string, code: string): string => {
fs.writeFileSync(`${path.join(__dirname, '/cpp/additional_files/main.cpp')}`, code);
// packaging in a zip archive and encoding in base64
shell.exec('base64 -v');
shell.exec('base64 --help');
shell.exec(
`cd ${path.join(__dirname, '/cpp/additional_files')} || exit; zip -r - . | base64 > ${path.resolve(
__dirname,
`../../zip_b64/${user_id}.txt`,
)}`,
);
// reading result base64 from a file
const zip_b64 = fs.readFileSync(`${path.resolve(__dirname, `../../zip_b64/${user_id}.txt`)}`).toString();
return zip_b64;
};
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