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Re: [LUG] Makefiles - mv with wildcard that may not match anything

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I'm trying to add something to make clean that will move all *~ files 
> into a .backups dir. The problem is that I don't want make to return an 
> error if I run make clean when there are no ~ files. Currently I have:
> 
> mkdir -p .backups
> if [ "`echo *~`" != "*~" ]; then mv -f *~ .backups ; fi
> 
> Which does work, but it's a bit cumbersome. Is there a better way
> of doing it?

Something like:

clean:
        mkdir -p .backups
        -mv -f *~ .backups

?

James

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