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

You'll need to use some sort of a script to get a list of all the .js files, and then runs the YUI Compressor on all of them. On the windows command prompt, something like this should work:

FOR %f IN (*.js) DO java -jar yuicompressor.jar %f -o deploy\%f