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When it is time to execute commands to update a target, they are executed by making a new subshell for each line. Then make will consider them a single command and pass them, together, to a shell which will execute them in sequence. If you would like to split a single shell command into multiple lines of text, you must use a backslash at the end of all but the last subline. Such a sequence of lines is combined into a single line, by deleting the backslash-newline sequences, before passing it to the shell. In the current directory.