At first you need to create your Makefile you can do that by the following command:

    touch Makefile

Then you need to edit your Makefile by using one text-editor (e.g. vim,nano,pico)

Lastly in order to execute the Makefile make sure you are in the same directory as the Makefile and write in the terminal:

    make                // This will execute the first target of the Makefile.

    make [target name]  // This will execute the specific target.

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In order to run shell commands from a Makefile you need to write the commands inside

a target and call make with this target. (NOTE: you need have commands spaced by a TAB)

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Example:

all:

    echo "This is the target all"

clean:

    clear

    echo "This cleaned the terminal"

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In order to execute this you write "make all" or "make clean"

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