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		kragen on Jan 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (201... I feel like you could run ctangle in one directory and use a ten-line awk script to copy the files with different checksums into the directory where you run the main Make?

dhosek on Jan 13, 2025 [–]

One of the challenges is that cweb wrote #line directives to its output so a file might change, but not in a meaningful way.

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