Makefile

There is a legendary make help target that has been floating around my career.

The idea is that you can add a simple help target to your makefile. Then get make help for free just by adding comments to a target.

example: ## Any double commented target now becomes help!

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Sebastian Gryczan

Contributed by @sgryczan.

help:
	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[32m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
	

Kris Nóva

Contributed by @kris-nova.

.PHONY: help
help:  ## Show help messages for make targets
	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[32m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'