automate env file creation

Makefile

@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@
 help: ## PTG API Server
 	@awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "} /^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## / {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
 
-
+env: ## create env file
+	[ ! -f .env ] && cp .env.sample .env
 
 full: https api record ml dash  ## bring the full system up
 
-https:  ## bring up the https reverse proxy
+https: env  ## bring up the https reverse proxy
 	docker-compose -f docker-compose.https.yaml up -d --build
 
 api: base  ## bring just the api services up
@@ -24,10 +25,10 @@ ml: base baseml  ## bring up the recording containers
 	cd ptgctl && docker build -f Dockerfile.gpu -t ptgctl:gpu .
 	cd ptg-server-ml && docker-compose -f docker-compose.ml.yaml up -d --build
 
-dash:  ## bring up the dashboard containers
+dash: env  ## bring up the dashboard containers
 	cd tim-dashboard && ls && docker-compose --env-file ../.env -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d --build && cd -
 
-base:  ## build the ptgctl container
+base: env  ## build the ptgctl container
 	cp .env ptg-server-ml/.env
 	docker build -t ptgctl -t ptgctl:latest ./ptgctl