make-maintains, updates, and regenerates groups of related programs and files

make ”maintains, updates, and regenerates groups of related programs and files

 make [ f makefile ] ... [ d ] [ dd ] [ D ] [ DD ] [ e ] [ i ] [ k ] [ n ] [ p ] [ P ] [ q ] [ r ] [ s ] [ S ] [ t ] [ target ... ] [ macro=value ... ] 

make updates files according to commands listed in a description file, and if the target file is newer than the dependency file of the same name , make will update the target file.