Re: Makefile help

[Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>]

Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> writes:

> It probably is, but I would not use make. A script which used find
> would do as well without make's idiosyncrasies. Pretty much any
> scripting language should do the job, so use one you are familiar with.

Since he said there are a lot of files to convert I thought make might
be a good choice for this after all. It would allow stopping the
conversion and starting again, skipping already converted files with
little overhead. Then again, any program could easily check if the
target file exists too.