How to list all targets in make?

This is how the bash completion module for make gets its list:

make -qp |
    awk -F':' '/^[a-zA-Z0-9][^$#\/\t=]*:([^=]|$)/ {split($1,A,/ /);for(i in A)print A[i]}' |
    sort -u

It prints out a newline-delimited list of targets, without paging.

FreeBSD and NetBSD make(1) have a built-in variable called .ALLTARGETS. You can print out its contents like this

make -V .ALLTARGETS

That will unfortunately print out a space-delimited list. I find the following more useful

make -V .ALLTARGETS | tr ' ' '\n'

It prints out each target on its own line.

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