SYNOPSIS

cleancss [options] source-file

DESCRIPTION

cleancss is a tool written in Javascript (Node.js) for minifying CSS files.

The minified file will be written to stdout or to a given output file.

OPTIONS

cleancss accepts the following common options:

-h, --help

Output usage information

-v, --version

Output the version number

-e, --remove-empty

Remove empty declarations (e.g. a{})

-b, --keep-line-breaks

Keep line breaks

--s0

Remove all special comments (i.e. /*! special comment */)

--s1

Remove all special comments but the first one

-r, --root-path root-path

Set a root path to which resolve absolute @import rules

-o, --output output-file

Use output-file as output instead of stdout

EXAMPLES

$ cleancss one.css

$ cleancss -o one-min.css one.css

$ cat one.css two.css three.css | cleancss -o merged-and-minified.css

$ cat one.css two.css three.css | cleancss |  \
      gzip -9 -c > merged-minified-and-gzipped.css.gz

AUTHOR

This manual has been written for the Debian project by Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> and may be used by others.