N := 1 SPECIMENS := $(addprefix specimen_,$(shell seq -f '%03.0f' $(N))) SPECIMENS_OK := $(addsuffix /OK,$(SPECIMENS)) database: $(SPECIMENS_OK) true pushdb: cp specimen_001/*.csv ${XRAY_DATABASE_DIR}/$(XRAY_DATABASE)/ $(SPECIMENS_OK): bash generate.sh $(subst /OK,,$@) touch $@ run: $(MAKE) clean $(MAKE) database $(MAKE) pushdb touch run.ok clean: rm -rf specimen_[0-9][0-9][0-9]/ run.ok .PHONY: database pushdb run clean