output: all .PHONY: example example: html/foot.html html/head.html mkdir -p articles/ fortune > articles/fort_1.md fortune > articles/fort_2.md HTML = $(patsubst articles/%.md,public/%.html,$(wildcard articles/*.md)) $(HTML): public/ articles/ $(wildcard html/*) html/head.html: @mkdir $(@D) echo '<head> Something about CSS probably </head>' > $@ echo '<body>' >> $@ html/foot.html: html/head.html echo '</body>' >> $@ public/%.html : articles/%.md cat html/head.html > $@ lowdown $< >> $@ cat html/foot.html >> $@ .PHONY: all all : $(HTML) articles/: mkdir $@ public/: mkdir $@ clean : rm -rf public