[X-Unix] [ANN] unmac

[John Baltutis]

On 1/8/09,  Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:44:28AM CST, Eric F Crist
><ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> Although I would love someone else to address this problem, I too 
>>> would be a little reluctant to use a solution that depended upon Ruby,
>>> just because I don't know anything about the language. I just really
>>> like Bash for this sort of thing, just because it's everywhere.
>>
>> Bash isn't everywhere, which is why I recommend sh.  Bash is in many 
>> places, and available almost everywhere, so it's becoming a popular 
>> scripting tool.
>
> I thought bash was everywhere on OS X --- although I don't have
> pre-Leopard installs to verify my comment.  And I don't know if
> this bash shell script was meant to be run on OS X systems, or
> whether it was intended to be executed by non-OSX systems (e.g.
> Linux, FreeBSD) with read/write access to OS X volumes.
>
> Portability is a b*tch sometimes.  :)

According to <http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/24/bash.html>, "In the
switch from Jaguar to PantherŠis the switch from tcsh to bash as the default
shell in Mac OS X."