In Unix, can I run 'make' in a directory without cd'ing to that directory first?

Question

In Unix, can I run make in a directory without cd\'ing to that directory first?

Answer 1

If the reason you don't want to cd to a directory is because you need to stay in the current directory for a later task, you can use pushd and popd:

pushd ProjectDir ; make ; popd

That goes into the ProjectDir, runs make, and goes back to where you were.