learning make

[Payal]

Hello all
I am not a C/C++ coder at all. I am a part-time sys adm which requires me to 
use a lot
of shell scripting and some perl. But for a long time I was intrigued to learn 
make.

My question is - with my background, can I learn make or do I have to know 
C/C++ beforehand?

-Payal