Linux does have Unix origins, and the Mac shell is Unix. It's also the Bash shell, (Born Aag SHell). It's possible to do various kinds of scripting on it, but I haven't investigated that yet.
Teresa On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote: > Hi > Over the past few weeks I have been running vinux 3.0 lucid in a virtual > machine and have been playing with it. And then recently I went into the > terminal on my mac in snow leopard and typed some commands and surprisingly I > find that most of the commands I can perform in vinux I can also do with the > terminal or the mac's unix shell. It's really cool. The only difference I can > see in the mac is that it uses the darwin kernel while vinux uses the linux > kernel. Oh and guys if you go into a terminal in your mac and type: > man ls > you can even read the unix man pages there. The only thing that doesn't work > is apt-get command. I'm not sure if dpkg works or not, I haven't tried it. > I'll try right now. Well guys dpkg also does not work. The mac's shell > reminds me very much of vinux 3.0 lucid though. > If you type > uname -a > it will tell you the kernel version among other things. > If you type: > man ls > it will bring up the man page for the ls list directory command. to quit the > man pages just press the letter q,. To close terminal hit command q. You can > even hit tab and it will autocomplete commands for you. I imagine the unix > shell is very powerful, even on the mac. And I'm glad mac uses the bash > shell. Vinux uses it too. I doubt voxin would work on the mac since voxin I > think is compiled for the linux kernel and not the darwin version10 kernel. > > Josh Kennedy > jkenn...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
