diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0a9a317..377c5a2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,9 +10,5 @@ extract:
 	@perl extract_urls.pl data/text/*.txt > $$(date +"output/links-%FT%T.txt")
 
 init:
-ifneq (,$(wildcard ./data/text))
-	@mkdir -p data/text
-endif
-ifneq (,$(wildcard ./ouput))
-	@mkdir output
-endif
+	@[ -d "data/text" ] || mkdir -p data/text
+	@[ -d "output" ] || mkdir output