In Unix, can I run 'make' in a directory without cd'ing to that directory first?

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user46795 picture user46795 · Jan 17, 2009 · Viewed 73.4k times · Source

In Unix, can I run make in a directory without cd'ing to that directory first?

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bmotmans picture bmotmans · Jan 17, 2009

make -C /path/to/dir

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