July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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prompt you for the type of data you wish to add. The available
content types will vary from installation to installation.
make
make [options] [targets] [macro definitions]
Update one or more targets according to dependency instructions
in a description file in the current directory. By default, this file is
called makefile or Makefile. Options, targets, and macro defini-
tions can be in any order. Macro definitions are typed as:
name=string
For more information on make, see Managing Projects with GNU
Make (O’Reilly).
Options
-d, --debug
Print detailed debugging information.
-e, --environment-overrides
Override Makefile macro definitions with environment
variables.
-f Makefile, --file=Makefile, --makefile=Makefile
Use Makefile as the description file; a filename of
- denotes
standard input.
-h, --help
Print options to make command.
-i, --ignore-errors
Ignore command error codes (same as .IGNORE).
-j [jobs], --jobs [=jobs]
Attempt to execute this many jobs simultaneously or, if no
number is specified, as many jobs as possible.
-k, --keep-going
Abandon the current target when it fails, but keep working
with unrelated targets.
-l [load], --load-average [=load], --max-load [=load]
Attempt to keep load below load, which should be a floating-
point number. Used with -j.
-n, --just-print ...
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