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Run all lines of a recipe in a single shell instance.

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Section: Special targets and behavior control

One shell per recipe

makefile
makefile
.ONESHELL:

deploy:
	set -eu
	cd infra
	terraform apply -auto-approve
Explanation

Without `.ONESHELL`, each recipe line runs in a separate shell.

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