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Sometimes people use a Makefile (Make) just to have a list of shortcuts for frequently used commands. For example:

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.PHONY: prepare lint build-docker

prepare:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y docker.io

lint:
    npx prettier -c .

build-docker: lint
    docker build -t $(imgname) .

I know that Make can do a lot more than that, but sometimes, for simple scenarios, this is enough. If this is the case, in my opinion there's no reason to use Make at all: we can do pretty much the same with a simple Bash script like the following:

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

cd "$(dirname "$0")"

target_prepare() { sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y docker.io; }
target_lint() { npx prettier -c .; }
target_build_docker() { target_lint; docker build -t "$1" .; }

echo "$1" | tr , '\n' | while read -r i; do "target_$i" "${@:2}"; done

Then we can save it in the root of our project and invoke it like this:

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./central.sh prepare,build-docker myimage