#I have a bunch of files that follow the naming convention
#soxfile1  soxfile1.o  soxfile1.sh   soxfile1.ini soxfile1.txt soxfile1.err
#soxfile2  soxfile2.o   soxfile2.sh  soxfile2.ini soxfile2.txt soxfile2.err
#sox...        ....        .....         ....         ....        ....
#in the makefile, only select the soxfile1.. soxfile2... to install dir
#My GNU makefile solution follows:
tgt=/usr/local/bin/          #need to use sudo
tgt2=/backup/myapplication/  #regular backup 

install:
        for var in $$(ls -f sox* | grep -v '\.' ) ; \
        do \
                sudo  cp -f $$var ${TGT} ;     \
                      cp -f  $$var ${TGT2} ;  \
        done


#The ls command selects all the soxfile* including the *.something
#The grep command rejects names with a dot in it, leaving  
#My desired executable files in a list. 

也许你可以用:

xxx:
    for i in `seq 1 4`; do ./a.out $$i; done;

为了跨平台支持，让命令分隔符(用于在同一行上执行多个命令)成为可配置的。

例如，如果你在Windows平台上使用MinGW，命令分隔符是&:

NUMBERS = 1 2 3 4
CMDSEP = &
doit:
    $(foreach number,$(NUMBERS),./a.out $(number) $(CMDSEP))

这将在一行中执行连接的命令:

./a.out 1 & ./a.out 2 & ./a.out 3 & ./a.out 4 &

正如前面提到的，在*nix平台上使用CMDSEP =;

如果你使用。/a，下面就可以做到这一点。out，你就在一个unix类型的平台上。

for number in 1 2 3 4 ; do \
    ./a.out $$number ; \
done

测试如下:

target:
    for number in 1 2 3 4 ; do \
        echo $$number ; \
    done

生产:

1
2
3
4

对于更大的范围，使用:

target:
    number=1 ; while [[ $$number -le 10 ]] ; do \
        echo $$number ; \
        ((number = number + 1)) ; \
    done

这将输出1到10(包含10)，只需将while终止条件从10更改为1000，以获得更大的范围，如您的注释所示。

嵌套循环可以这样完成:

target:
    num1=1 ; while [[ $$num1 -le 4 ]] ; do \
        num2=1 ; while [[ $$num2 -le 3 ]] ; do \
            echo $$num1 $$num2 ; \
            ((num2 = num2 + 1)) ; \
        done ; \
        ((num1 = num1 + 1)) ; \
    done

生产:

1 1
1 2
1 3
2 1
2 2
2 3
3 1
3 2
3 3
4 1
4 2
4 3

如果您正在使用GNU make，您可以尝试一下

NUMBERS = 1 2 3 4
doit:
        $(foreach var,$(NUMBERS),./a.out $(var);)

哪个将生成并执行

./a.out 1; ./a.out 2; ./a.out 3; ./a.out 4;

#I have a bunch of files that follow the naming convention
#soxfile1  soxfile1.o  soxfile1.sh   soxfile1.ini soxfile1.txt soxfile1.err
#soxfile2  soxfile2.o   soxfile2.sh  soxfile2.ini soxfile2.txt soxfile2.err
#sox...        ....        .....         ....         ....        ....
#in the makefile, only select the soxfile1.. soxfile2... to install dir
#My GNU makefile solution follows:
tgt=/usr/local/bin/          #need to use sudo
tgt2=/backup/myapplication/  #regular backup 

install:
        for var in $$(ls -f sox* | grep -v '\.' ) ; \
        do \
                sudo  cp -f $$var ${TGT} ;     \
                      cp -f  $$var ${TGT2} ;  \
        done


#The ls command selects all the soxfile* including the *.something
#The grep command rejects names with a dot in it, leaving  
#My desired executable files in a list.