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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:43:12+00:00

What is the best way to concatenate multiple CSS files into one CSS file?

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What is the best way to concatenate multiple CSS files into one CSS file?

I want to reduce the following ..

<link href="css/1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<link href="css/2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<link href="css/3.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">

.. into ..

<link href="css/1-3.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">

Simply doing cat css/*.css > css/1-3.css does not seem to do the trick.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As long as the ordering of the arguments for cat matches the original ordering of the three referenced CSS files in the HTML file the cat-method should work as expected.

    So given say ..

    <link href="css/one.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<link href="css/two.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<link href="css/three.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">

    .. the following concaternation ..

    cat css/one.css css/two.css css/three.css > css/all.css

    .. together will the following reference ..

    <link href="css/all.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">

    .. should be 100 % identical.

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