bb: the awk build system

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ABOUT

bb demonstrates a working build system written in GNU awk, to organize build steps for awk projects.

$ cd example

$ ./bb
bzz bzz

$ ./bb help
Usage: bb [<task> [<task> [<task> ...]]]

Tasks:

* all
* help
* test

Tasks are implemented with awk functions.

Task trees are implemented with functions that call other functions.

That's it.

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