What is a makefile, and how I use it in a dbt project

Mastering Makefile for dbt: A Data Engineer’s Guide

Lorena Gongang
Data Engineer Things
3 min readNov 6, 2023

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What is a makefile?

A Makefile is a file that can contain shell commands or command-line commands. This is useful if you don’t want to rewrite every command line in your project when working on it. In the dbt context, it can be used to run tests, run…

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