Wednesday, September 2, 2015

How to pre-gzip javascript or css file from command line in Windows

There are few options to gzip js/css file from command line in Windows.
Python standard library has gzip module that can gzip from command line:


It works pretty well and provides good compression rate. I compared size of the resulting file with result of Linux's gzip command with '-9' switch (best compression) and Python module produced smaller file (YMMV)

This python module will produce file with same name and extension 'gz':

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