The AWK book’s 60-line version of Make September 2023 Go to: AWK Make | How it works | Python Make | Conclusion In the wonderful book The AWK Programming Language by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan, there are a few pages at the end of chapter 7 that present a simplified version of the Make utility – written in a single page of AWK code. Before we look at that, I want to mention that the second edit