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I want to run commands like make, make install, python setup install without changing directories
I have written a script which will download software from the internet to the current user's home directory and then untar it. And then I have to make and make install it and in some software I have ...
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How to run a Python script in Makefile
I want to write a Makefile to find specific files and run a Python script on each file. The Python script accepts sys.stdin input.
find $(W)/$(OVE) -name "*.xml" -print | \
while read x ; do \
cat ...
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Looping over directory entries in bash and saving to an array
(See update at the foot of the question).
This is a followup question to "Make directory copies using
find".
This question involved manipulating a bunch of directories, This got
too complicated to ...
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Autocompletion for Makefile rules in tcsh
I'm using tcsh in a SUSE 11 box and I realized that when typing
makeTab
it allows me to auto-complete the rules available within the Makefile, not the files that are inside the current directory.
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how can a makefile detect whether a command is available in the local machine?
I began to use org-mode for planning out my tasks in GTD-style system. Putting every org files in a directory of a Dropbox folder, I run emacs to edit / manage these files from three different local ...
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How to save the results from ls to a command?
I want the results from an ls to be saved in a var inside a makefile
the command is simply the following:
ls text*
and the result suppose to be something like : text1.txt
What i put in my script ...
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What is a subshell (in the context of the documentation of make)?
I'm reading a book about the make command and there is a paragraph:
If any of the prerequisites has an associated rule, make attempts to
update those first. Next, the target file is considered. ...
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Make mistakenly thinks rule succeeded because of 0-sized file generated by output redirect
In a makefile, I have several rules that look like this:
out.txt: foo.sh input.txt
./foo.sh -i input.txt > out.txt
If foo.sh fails, then out.txt will be created as a 0-sized file. If I run ...
