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Make your makefile help messages beautiful with awk | Padok

https://www.padok.fr/ https://www.padok.fr/en/blog https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/tag/technology https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/beautiful-makefile-awk # The help target prints out all targets with their descriptions organized # beneath their categories.

The printf command is like bash's echo, with the added ability to inject values into strings, like C's printf function.

The string given to printf has some escape codes that set text color just like in the earlier printf command.

So this action prints section names like this: The awk program processes the Makefile's lines one by one, in order.