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Re:Brushing up on operating systems and C programming by spatulon on Sunday January 21, 2018 @12:32PM (#16198942)
In my mind, shell scripts are simpler. I have no reason to need the extra complexity that make brings.

Also, I do a lot of programming on Windows, where GNU make would be another dependency to install. (Also, in my experience, make is slow on Windows, since they have to emulate fork()). I guess I could use Microsoft nmake, since I assume it's still installed along with Visual Studio, but again, batch files are simpler.

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Re:Brushing up on operating systems and C programming by int_19h on Sunday January 21, 2018 @08:26PM (#16201198)
Take a look at this: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/redo-sh.html

And for GNU tools on Windows, I would heavily recommend MSYS2 these days - having Pacman as the package manager is very nice, and there are already a lot of packages there.

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