[ale] make - OT

[Jeff Lightner]

This reminds me of a cute trick seen on HP-UX:

Type "make love" and hit return - it will tell you:

Make: Don't know how to make love.  Stop.

The Linux response isn't quite as funny.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of John
Heim
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 3:51 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] make


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lynch" <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
>> I want to make jheim.ldif by doing an ldap search for "uid=jheim".
>>
>> %.ldif :
>>    ldapsearch -LLL -x "uid=?" > $@
>>
>> But what goes in place of the question mark in the above rule?
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> It I understand your question correctly, $* will probably work for
you.
>

Ah! Excellent! So now I can also make a backup of a table thusly:

Makefile:

%.sql :
    mysqldump -u admin -p dbname $* > $@

Then if I say 'make tablename.sql', it will dump the table to
tablename.sql. 
Thanks.

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