How to automate JavaScript files compression with YUI Compressor?

Question

YUI Compressor does not accept wildcard parameters, so I cannot run it like this:

C:>java -jar yuicompressor.jar *.js

But I have over

Answer 1

And for unix or cygwin you can use xargs or something like:

ls -1 *.js | awk '{printf("java -jar yuicompressor.jar %s -o deploy/%s",$1,$1)}'

Pipe that to /bin/sh when you're happy with the command line to execute it.