diff --git a/make/projects-dir.mk b/make/projects-dir.mk
index 0490276d..6c369102 100644
--- a/make/projects-dir.mk
+++ b/make/projects-dir.mk
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ text-files-update:
 	@make --no-print-directory list-files | xargs file -N | grep ":.*text" | cut -d: -f1 | tee $(TEXT_FILES_CACHE).tmp
 	mv $(TEXT_FILES_CACHE).tmp $(TEXT_FILES_CACHE)
 text-files-list list-text-files: | $(TEXT_FILES_CACHE)
-	@cat $<
+	@cat $(TEXT_FILES_CACHE)
 
 loc-all:
 	@make --no-print-directory list-text-files | \