Re: run bash script on a MAC?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:45 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>  Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 02:03 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>  >> On my FC7 box I wrote a bash script that my daughter
>  >> wants to run on her MAC.  I know nothing of the MAC.
>  >> Would this work?  BTW, the script is essentially a
>  >> for loop that renames files.
>  > 
>  > MacOS is Unix (BSD) with a lot of stuff on top, so yes it will work,
>  > except for bugs in the script of course. For example, does it handle
>  > filenames with spaces in them?
>  
>  For added fun, HFS+ is case-preserving, rather than case-sensitive, by default. 
>    If you're not careful, this can do bad things, as I learned when I used fink 
>  to install libwww-perl, and /usr/bin/HEAD wiped out /usr/bin/head. 
Yes, I'd forgotten that subtlety.

poc