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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:48:31 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make clean 
Message-ID:  <200102191648.f1JGmVL25456@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:20:33 EST." <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0102171518420.1665989-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu> 

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> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:20:33 -0500
> From: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> can someone tell me exactly what the command make clean does?

Literally, it does whatever the person who wrote the Makefile wants it
to do. 'clean' is simply a make target.

Normally 'make clean' will delete any files created by a 'make all' or
most any other 'make'.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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