To make this happen, it uses the filesystem timestamps as a proxy to determine if something has changed. This is a reasonable heuristic, because file timestamps typically will only change if the files are modified.

Make selects the target blah, because the first target is the default target

It's Faster

It's even more discoverable if your shell has smart tab completion: for example, on my current project, if you enter the aws/ directory and type make<TAB>, you'll see a list that includes things like docker-login, deploy-dev and destroy-sandbox.

Variables. Multiple lines. No more escaped quotation marks. Comments.

The make install task installs the following files:

I’ve created a makefile to automate this process here.

A makefile works upon the principle that files only need recreating if their dependencies are newer than the file being created/recreated.

@echo My HOME path has $(words $(CURRENT_PATH)) directories.

The problem is that the space before the.oargument ispart of the replacement text and was inserted into the output string. The spacebefore the.cis fine because all whitespace before the first argument is strippedoff bymake.