Makefile

Makefiles are used in compiling processes.

makefiles have a version check system built in For example, if you use a makefile to process a set of jpg's, it takes them all. If you run the makefile again, it only processes the files that where changed.

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GNU Make

Example makefile

images=$(wildcard images/*.jpg)
# creates: images/001.jpg images/002.jpg images/000.jpg

space:= $(empty) $(empty)
newline:= '\n'
listtxt:= $(subst $(space),$(newline),$(images)) 
# subst is a way to do string replacements, it works like this: $(subst $(delimitator),$(replacement),$(list))
# it's used here to make a list of the images, with one filename on each line

tesseract:
	echo $(listtxt) > src/list.txt
	tesseract src/list.txt src/plain

myscript: tesseract
	cat src/plain.txt | python3 src/myscript.py > output/a-new-file.txt