How to use a for loop in make recipe

Question

I would like to use a loop to find some files and rename them:

  for i in `find $@  -name *_cu.*`;do mv $i "$(echo $i|sed s/_cu//)"
  done

This works in the shell. But how can I do this in a makefile recipe?

Answer 1

I found this useful, trying to use for loops to build multiple files:

PROGRAMS = foo bar other

.PHONY all
all: $(PROGRAMS)
$(PROGRAMS):
    gcc -o $@ [email protected]

It will compile foo.c, bar.c, other.c into foor bar other executables