OT: Scripting humour

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On Jan 7, 2008 7:32 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2008 7:12 PM, anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does OSX use sh?  The BSD's do, right?
>
> Yes - OSX has a command line. Mine uses Bash but there are other to
> select from if preferred.

While this is true, there are a great number of differences in the
available options for even very common BSD shell programs like tar and
others that often cause script incompatibilities.  Generally speaking,
if it works on BSD it will almost certainly work on linux but the
obverse is far from guaranteed.

Great gag though!