OT: Scripting humour

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, 2008-07-01 at 13:47 -0500, anthony baldwin wrote:
> Steve Flynn 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.
> >
> >   
> So a bash script written for Linux will work on OSX?
> Or are there differences in the commands, and stuff?
> (Does OSX have zenity, or can if be installed?)
> 
> I suppose that's all rather OT, but I'm curious...

It has bash - but not Gnome, which is required for the zenity command.
Most of the basic gnu commands are there with the bash shell, and there
is an (optional) X11 interface, but anything GUI is completely
different, and not generally accessible via bash scripts.  (yes, there
are exceptions, I'm doing the broad strokes here....)

Brian McKee
(www.muskokamug.org if you want more info....)
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