[ILUG] Wildcards in makefile

[Conor Daly]

I have a Makefile that installs manpages (among other things).  Now, I
know this is probably a terrible thing to do, the user should really work
out how the program works by experimentation.  However, I have a growing
list of manpages and it's getting a bit tedious.  I currently have lines
of the form:

	cp ../man3/csvtokenise.3 $(MANDIR)/man3/; \

in my 'install' target and of the form:

	rm -f $(MANDIR)/man3/csvtokenise.3; \

in the 'uninstall' target.

I'd like to use a line of the form:

	cp ../man3/* $(MANDIR)/man3/; \

for the install target but, given that $(MANDIR)/man3/ will contain
manpages from other programs / libs, I cannot use:

	rm -f $(MANDIR)/man3/*; \

for the uninstall.  Is there a form of 

for FILE in ../man3/*; do rm -f $(MANDIR)/man3/$FILE; done

that I can use in a makefile to accomplish this?

Regards,

Conor



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