Command Line Options For YUI Compressor

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Andrew picture Andrew · Mar 24, 2012 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

This is probably a quick question. I'd like to run the YUI compressor so that, instead of overwriting all of the javascript files in the input directory, it dumps the output files into a subdirectory called min. I would like to do something like

java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar -o *.js .\min\*.js c:\MyJavascriptDirectory\*.*

but instead it just overwrites the existing files with the minified files. Does anyone know the correct syntax to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Answer

TryHarder picture TryHarder · Mar 24, 2012

I'm not sure of the correct syntax to do that, but someone has made a modification so that you can set up your output directory as follows

java -jar yuicompressor.jar --output-dir /some/folder/for/compressed/js *js

This allows you to have a source folder and a compressed folder. As opposed to having source and a bunch of -min.js files in the same folder.

You can download the mod at the bottom of the page here http://yuilibrary.com/projects/yuicompressor/ticket/2528131

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