I'm a heavy C programmer, so I made a makefile from scratch to handle the simple stuff; here's the initial file:

object : *.c
gcc -c *.c

$@ : *.o
gcc -o $@ *.o

clean :
rm -f *.o
EOF

This is just about all I really need, but I figured out another function that would be useful. I'd like to be able to simply delete the executables WITHOUT deleting everything else in the folder. I tried to create a "make new" rule that would rm anything NOT ending in an extension (except for the makefile, of course), but had no luck. I tried something like this:

new :
ls | grep '.*[^\..*]' | rm -f
(Yes, I know that rule would delete the makefile as well... I'm still working on that part as well.)

Any help?

From the looks of your Makefile every .c source file is its own executable. So the following new target would work if this is the case:

rm -f `ls -l | grep -v "^d" | awk '{print $9}' | grep -v "\." | awk '{if($1!="makefile"){print $1}}'`

I suppose this should do it for you