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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