diff --git a/automation/minifying/minify_js.sh b/automation/minifying/minify_js.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
+	FILES="../../js";
+else
+    FILES=$1;
+fi
+
+
+for f in $FILES/*.js;
+do
+	if [[ $f != *".min"* ]]; then
+		echo "Processing $f ..."
+		echo "java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.8.jar $f -o ${f%.js}.min.js"
+		java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.8.jar $f -o ${f%.js}.min.js
+	fi
+done
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diff --git a/automation/minifying/minify_scripts_js.sh b/automation/minifying/minify_scripts_js.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "Optimizing scripts.js to scripts.min.js"
+java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.8.jar ../../js/scripts.js -o ../../js/scripts.min.js
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