2023-12-15-make_list.md

title	date	draft	categories	tags
makefile list	2023-12-15 00:00:00 -0500	false	daily	blog

Working with make commands can be tiresome. Especially when those makefiles are really long and you do not know what commands are in them or you cannot remember what the commands are named.
Here is a neat little trick to help with that.
make list

<Makefile>
test:
	echo "testing"

build:
	echo "building"

deploy:
	echo "deploying"

list:
	@grep '^[^#[:space:]].*:' Makefile | sort

just add the extra list command to a makefile like this

list:
	@grep '^[^#[:space:]].*:' Makefile | sort

and then when you run it you get

$ make list
test:
build:
deploy: