NAME

     chicken-do — run a shell command unless the target exists and any dependency is not newer
     than the target

SYNOPSIS

     chicken-do [-q] [-h] [--] TARGET ... : DEPENDENCY ... : COMMAND ...

DESCRIPTION

     If the files TARGET ... do not exist, or if any of the files in DEPENDENCY ... are newer
     than one of the target files, then execute the shell commands in COMMAND ....

     The program accepts the following options:

     -h      Show usage and exit.

     -q      Quiet operation - do not print shell commands when they are executed.

     --      Treat all following tokens as target filenames, even if they begin with a -
             character.

EXIT STATUS

     The chicken-do utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

     Build a C program from sources:

           $ chicken-do prg: prg.c inc.h: gcc prg.c -o prg

SEE ALSO

     chicken(1), chicken-status(1), chicken-install(1), chicken-uninstall(1), csc(1)

     More information can be found in the CHICKEN User's Manual: http://wiki.call-
     cc.org/manual/index.

AUTHORS

     The CHICKEN Team

BUGS

     Submit bug reports by e-mail to chicken-janitors@nongnu.org