Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: mcnesium Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Will Linux-style commands work on OSX? Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:44:29 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de Tr53EnEQ+u9Ovgs5Nhys0AkL4sIq4ollEtFr8HmzH/M0nkFjXhJv7HFuQG Cancel-Lock: sha1:yBZwa/H6j56t9+X1DG471oVa79U= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:70800 On 2015-03-02 01:34:26 +0000, Barry Margolin said: > In article , > Lewis wrote: > >> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Jolly Roger was all, >> like: >>> On 2015-03-01, sctvguy1 wrote: >>>> I have a Fedora book with tons of Linux commands, will those work? >> >>> Depends on the command. Since Linux is based on Unix, a lot of commands >>> will work the same way or similarly. Mac OS X is different in many areas >>> though. >> >> The biggest difference is that OS X is a BSD and Linux is.. Well, Linux. > > But quite a few of the commands on OS X commands are the GNU versions. > It's a hodgepodge. You pretty much have to check every command on a > case-by-case basis to see precisely which options it takes. many commands that work different on OSX can be "updated" to recent versions with well-known linux behaviour through homebrew (http://brew.sh/)