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Posted 2026-02-18

Globbing files to pass to CLI command options

I've been using Helm recently as part of a new product offering, and as a way to deploy my various websites. Helm allows providing values to the templates in a Helm chart via one or more values files, which are provided via the option -f. It's often useful to break these into several files, so you can do things like cover common values, and then environment- or namespace-specific values.

However, the -f option only accepts a single value, and doesn't recognize globs.

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Posted 2026-02-11

Passing script arguments to a Makefile target

I've many times wondered how I could build a Makefile that would accept arguments to pass to the command invoked by the build target. It turns out to be relatively easy.

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Posted 2023-12-13

Advent 2023: Makefile: guard targets

A couple days ago, I wrote about Makefile. Today, I'm going to show a quick tip for writing "guard" targets.

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Posted 2023-12-11

Advent 2023: Makefile

I like to automate common workflows when I can, particularly for web projects. As an example, I may have different Docker Compose setups for development versus production, and having to remember to add the -f {compose file name} argument can be tedious and error prone.

Being a long-time Linux user, I've used make a lot, and am fairly comfortable with Makefile, so I often turn to it for these tasks.