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I have a coworker who uses make for tasks that do not fit comfortably in a few lines of shell script, and it can make for very elegant and readable solutions.

I have a coworker who uses make for tasks that do not fit comfortably in a few lines of shell script, and it can make for very elegant and readable solutions. Without giving in to the procedural constructs that are so awkward in shell scripting languages.

tomcam 5y ago
That opened my mind… 30 years after I started using make. D’oh!
jjtheblunt 5y ago
i do that too...folks seem surprised, but it's handy