Is there a way to flag some targets in a Makefile so that they don't appear at all in the shell when the user types make and then presses Tab ?I am having a Makefile with too many recipes and I don't want them all to appear in the shell autocompletion when a users presses Tab looking for targets.
Hide make targets from shell when users autocomplete in bash
bash;autocomplete;make
After studying the problem and coming up with a solution that I wrote in the first answer, I realized that there is another very simple way.Just start the target's names you don't want to show beginning with a dot.Example:.PHONY: foo .hiddentargetfoo: foo.x .hiddentargetfoo.x: foo.c        touch foo.x.hiddentarget: foo.x        echo foo.x ok, I believeAnd that's all you need!I came to this idea after trying to figure out how to prevent a target named .HIDDENGOALS being called by mistake and run all hidden goals. :)Warning Although I don't see any, I'm not sure if there isn't any side effect on using target names like this .targetname (starting with a dot).