The characteristics of the file task dependencies

In real life, we encounter more complicated examples like we have just seen. Often, a project build contains a lot of transformations of many files.

Consider that you have a blog and it contains a lot of articles. To build the site, you have to translate each chapter from the Markdown format to HTML. This will allow you to publish the blog on the Internet.

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Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be optionally converted to HTML using a tool by the same name. More about this can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown.

To convert articles from Markdown to HTML, we will use the pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) command-line utility. If you use Linux, your system's package manager may already contain it, and the installation is very easy. Use the following command to install pandoc:

$ apt-get install pandoc

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If you want to know more about the utility, or if you have some other operating system and...