11 Aug
2007
11 Aug
'07
10:44 a.m.
At 12:32 PM 8/11/2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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?
Of course there's an OS X 'terminal' app for a command line.
And you find it in /usr/bin/sed unless you've moved it.
And you can replace the BSD-y, POSIX-y one with a GNU one.
The desktop GUI is just a program of course, as was X Window.
- John