---
name: "cssmin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cssmin"
version: "0.2.0-11"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cssmin"
---

# cssmin(1)

YUI Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) compressor

## NAME

cssmin - YUI Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) compressor

## SYNOPSIS

**cssmin** \[*--wrap N*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Reads raw CSS from stdin, and writes compressed CSS to stdout.

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  show program's version number and exit

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-w** N, **--wrap**=*N*

  Wrap output to approximately N chars per line.

## EXAMPLES

To combine several CSS files into one compressed output:

`cat file1.css file2.css file3.css | cssmin > output.min.css`

To compress one CSS file while keeping the line length to approximately 1000 characters:

`cssmin --wrap 1000 < input.css > output.css`

## AUTHOR

**cssmin** was written by Zachary Voase.

More details can be found at http://github.com/zacharyvoase/cssmin

This manual page was written by Stuart Prescott \<stuart@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).