Hi all,
I've a makefile which has this line:
@touch $@
I know $@ is for representing the target. But I don't know what's the @ preceding the touch.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.
From my reference it (the @) would suppress the echo of the command being executed.
Thanks. It seems this is correct 
May I have your reference? (Because I've found another problem: What does '-' do?)
The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan/Pike:)
Page 255 (nice index!).
Thanks.
I searched the Internet for this ebook but found nothing! It was published in 1984!
At last, I found it in my universities' library. The book was great. 
Thanks.