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@ -56,9 +56,23 @@ Removes any singular file or directory non recursively defined within @{...},
this has no effect on the normal processing of the statement and is macro'd out
before it is executed.
This is useful in such cases that you create a temporary file or output file
that may be later recreated or may need to be manually updated. It is most
useful for simple scrubbing of outputs. You could have a directory of toy
programs and wish to clean them all up, and using a command like:
for i in `ls *.c`; do bake -x $i; done
This is of course can also be done with another UNIX command like the following,
assuming the other files outside of the regexp are not important:
ls | egrep -v '.+\.[ch]' | xargs rm
This feature was suggested by the original author of Shake, blame him for this.
--- Options ---
Options must come as the first argument, and may be merged together, such as -xn.
Options must come before the filename, and may be merged together, such as -xn.
-v, --version: display versioning and licensing information.
-h, --help: display the help message, similarly to empty input.