run bash script on a MAC?

[Michael D. Berger]

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.

Thanks for your help.
Mike.

[Craig White]

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. 
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Bash was installed standard from 10.3.x on I think. Earlier versions of
OS X might be an issue.

Craig

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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?

poc

[Chris Snook]

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.

-- Chris

[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