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Making a project distribution folder

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I'm trying to make my first c project (a simple tic tac toe console game), and I am wondering how to make a final product (copy all source code files to a distribution folder upon compilation). Should I use a bash script or should I use a makefile to make the distribution folder? I'm not terrible familiar with either; I have a basic makefile to make an executable, and that's about all I know of make.

And if I do use a bash script, how do I copy over source code files? I tried cp ./*.c and cp ./*.h, but I think the script read it literally as moving a file named ./*.c (and ./*.h), and couldn't find it.

My makefile is pretty much this:

Code:

objectFiles = main.o io.o board.o game.o



ttt : $(objectFiles)

        cc -o ttt $(objectFiles)

I wrote a script to do that exact thing, I like to keep things simple rather than use a full IDE ... rename to .sh

cheers

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Thanks for the script. Though, I already have an existing project with code, except the folder is cluttered with object files and editor backups. So I'm trying to copy all *.h and *.c files to a clean subdirectory (/distr), then zip it upon compiling. Though I don't know how to copy files just based on having a .c or .h. I can do it in the terminal no problem, cp ./*.c ./distr and cp ./*.h ./distr, but that same code wouldn't work in the script.

So pretty much, how do I copy source files in a shell script?

So far this is what I have (and it doesn't work):

Code:

#!/bin/bash



# Remove old source-distribution directory

if [ -e ./distr ]; then

  rm -r ./distr

fi



# Make a clean source-distribution directory

mkdir ./distr



# Move source code to distribution directory

cFiles=ls "./*.c"

for i in $cFiles; do

        cp $i ./distr

done



hFiles=ls "./*.h"

for i in $hFiles; do

        cp $i ./distr

done

ETA: Found out how to do that. Had to feed ls output to grep. Ye gads I'm horrible with shell scripting.

Code:

!/bin/bash



# Distribution folder name

distrFolder="./distr"



# Source code file extension expression (for grep)

extension="\.[ch]$"





# Remove old source-distribution directory

if [ -e "$distrFolder" ]; then

  rm -r "$distrFolder"

fi



# Make a clean source-distribution directory

mkdir "./$distrFolder"



# Get source code files from current directory

srcFiles=$(ls | grep "$extension")



# Move source code files to distribution directory

for file in $srcFiles; do

    cp "./$file" "$distrFolder"

done