I like this style as well, we keep all our scripts in a ./bin directory, e.g. ./bin/lint.sh, ./bin/test.sh, etc. just as discoverable as make commands (run ls .

I like this style as well, we keep all our scripts in a ./bin directory, e.g. ./bin/lint.sh, ./bin/test.sh, etc. just as discoverable as make commands (run ls ./bin) and much easier to maintain. If you really want make, you can also just call out to your bash scripts from make: test: ./bin/test.sh lint: ./bin/lint.sh ...