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.