Next: UNIX and C Up: Writing Larger Programs Previous: Make macros . Simply type make from command line. UNIX automatically looks for a file called Makefile (note: capital M rest lower case letters). So if we have a file called Makefile and we type make from command line. The Makefile in our current directory will get executed. We can override this search for a file by typing make -f make_filename . e.g. ~ make -f my_make . ... Wed Sep 14 10:06:31 BST 1994 ...