Comments on: Part 3: Helpful Command-Line Commands (Mac OS X) http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:18:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Druid http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-117677 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:12:20 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-117677 Ed3, I am a Cygwin user at work and would also recommend it to Windows users who need a touch of Unix. BUT, having said that, my real recommendation to anyone wanting Unix is: get a Mac. As I rummage around the config files in OS X I see a lot of references to FreeBSD due to OS X's roots. The Mach kernel is not "Unix-like" is IS Unix. My recent switch to being a Mac user wasn't me running 'from' Windows, it was me running 'to' OS X (and 'from' Linux). Ed3, I am a Cygwin user at work and would also recommend it to Windows users who need a touch of Unix. BUT, having said that, my real recommendation to anyone wanting Unix is: get a Mac. As I rummage around the config files in OS X I see a lot of references to FreeBSD due to OS X’s roots. The Mach kernel is not “Unix-like” is IS Unix. My recent switch to being a Mac user wasn’t me running ‘from’ Windows, it was me running ‘to’ OS X (and ‘from’ Linux).

]]> by: Kyle Reasons http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-117012 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:51:25 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-117012 Thanks for the tip ed3. :) Thanks for the tip ed3. :)

]]> by: ed3 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-116979 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:18:31 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-116979 See my comments back on Part 2... :) Most of these commands are some 20/30 years old and are not limited to Mac OSX. Heck, install Cygwin or GNU Coreutils and you too can have a very powerful UNIX-like shell on your Windows system. Write a script once in ksh and it'll run practically anywhere. Write a bat script in Windows/DOS commands and it'll run on... Windows/DOS systems. See my comments back on Part 2… :)

Most of these commands are some 20/30 years old and are not limited to Mac OSX.

Heck, install Cygwin or GNU Coreutils and you too can have a very powerful UNIX-like shell on your Windows system. Write a script once in ksh and it’ll run practically anywhere.

Write a bat script in Windows/DOS commands and it’ll run on… Windows/DOS systems.

]]> by: Mantawolf http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-116415 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:26:11 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4134#comment-116415 Doesnt an operating system need to be used by real people before the commands can be considered useful? :p wait for it... Doesnt an operating system need to be used by real people before the commands can be considered useful?

:p

wait for it…

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