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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by radiospiel on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:27PM (#16485930) 

    send: foo.log
          tail foo.log | email
          touch send
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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by Jtsummers on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:32PM (#16485983)
Correct, that works for this example. But if you have a lot of tasks that involve non-filesystem activities you'll end up littering your filesystem with these empty files for every one of them. This can lead to its own problems (fragility, you forgot that `task_x` doesn't generate a file, or it used to generate one but no longer does, etc.).
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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by Jare on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:58PM (#16486840)
> you'll end up littering your filesystem with these empty files for every one of them

These files are information just like files that are not empty.

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