OT: Scripting humour

[anthony baldwin]

Brian McKee wrote:
> 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:
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>>>       
>>>> 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....)
>   
Is there a KDE equivalent to zenity?
Oddly, I don't have gnome installed, but I do have zenity.

thanks
tony

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