Make is a command line tool that can help to automate building software and executing analysis pipelines.
We have a presentation/demo prepared on the use of make to automate various tasks:
data analysis workflows
paper/presentation preparation
building and installing software
The tutorial and template code are available on github. The HTML of the tutorial is also available here. You can clone the repository with a git clone, which can be done from the Linux/Mac command line as:
git clone https://github.com/berkeley-scf/make-thw-2015