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A sample block of Makefile automation to generate very pretty help text.
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help: ## Show this help message and exit.
@echo "Usage: make <command>\n\033[36m\033[0m"
@awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*##"} /^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?##/ { printf "\033[36m%-18s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2 } /^##@/ { printf "\n\033[1m%s\033[0m\n", substr($$0, 5) } ' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
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Example output:

Output from the Marrow Valsi project.

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