update

.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 node_modules/
 package-lock.json
 *.nbt
-*.dat
+*.dat
+*.json
+!package.json

README.md

@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ A simple command line Node.js tool to read and write NBT files to JSON and back.
 
 Uses `prismarine-nbt` for serialization and deserialization, see https://github.com/PrismarineJS/prismarine-nbt for more info on schema.
 
+### Usage 
+
+via npx:
+`npx nbt-dump --help`
+
+via npm:
+`npm install -g nbt-dump`
+`nbt-dump --help`
+
 ```sh
 usage, feel free to use natural language:
 Parse an NBT file to JSON: 

index.js

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
 const fs = require('fs')
 const nbt = require('prismarine-nbt')
 
@@ -38,7 +39,6 @@ function main(args, argsStr) {
     if (files.length == 2) return write(...files, getFmt())
   } else {
     if (!files.length) files = [args[0], args[0] + '.json']
-    // if (files.length == 1) files.push(files[0] + '.json')
     return read(files[0], files[1], getFmt())
   }
 
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ async function read(inpf, outf, fmt) {
   const buffer = await fs.promises.readFile(inpf)
   const { result, type } = await nbt.parse(buffer, fmt)
 
+  if (!fmt) console.log(`(as ${type} endian)`)
   if (outf) {
     const json = JSON.stringify(result, (k, v) => typeof v === 'bigint' ? v.toString() : v)
     fs.writeFileSync(outf, json)
   } else {
-    if (!fmt) console.log(`(as ${type} endian)`)
     console.log(nbt.simplify(result))
   }
 

package.json

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "description": "Read and write Minecraft Named Binary Tag files in big, little and little-varint encoding",
   "main": "index.js",
-  "bin": "index.js",
+  "bin": {
+    "nbt-dump": "./index.js"
+  },
   "scripts": {
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
   },