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the snippet checks for the existence of a file from within a Makefile.
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Makefile
# from make documentation.
# $(wildcard pattern): 'pattern' is a file name pattern [...].
# The result of wildcard is a space-separated
# list of the names of existing files that match the pattern.
path2file = test.txt
ifneq ("$(wildcard $(path2file))","")
fileexists = 1
else
fileexists = 0
endif
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