Can someone tell me what this means?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 14:28:53 CDT 2007


Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2007 at 9:37, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> 
>> I think the statement is legitimate. Mac OS X is the Unixy thing with the
>> largest installed user base. I would imagine, though I have no figures,
>> that they are at the top or near the top of the desktop Unix market simply
>> because of the number of OS X capable Macs out there.
> 
> As a Unix old-timer, it seems very strange to talk about "Unix" 
> without mentioning a command-line interface or any of the supporting 
> programs that make up the whole system.  How does one, on an OS X out 
> of the box run a shell script?  Where in OS X do I find sed or m4 or 
> awk?
> 
> Exactly what makes Unix Unix?

You do realize that OS X "out of the box" has all of those things fairly 
easy to find.

Peace...  Sridhar


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