Mac OS X and Ubuntu

[Mbengi Bongi]

I dual boot Mac OS X 10.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 on my iMac - is there any difference between the Terminals on the 2 OSes?

i.e. If I wrote a shellscript in Ubuntu could I run it on the Mac Terminal.app?

I use BaSH in both cases.

[gnusci]

I think it should work without problems, as far is only bash script code. I do have the two system, I still didnt see any problem... Anyway Terminal is running also bash.

[jimi_hendrix]

i think there are difference but they are minute...but enough for there to be 2 guide if you google bash commands...

[Mbengi Bongi]

Thanks for the replies guys,

I have noticed some problems particularly with ANSI escape codes, I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced the same.

[snova]

A terminal is a terminal, for one thing. If there are differences, they have nothing to do with the terminal program itself. It's just a display.

Any differences are consequences of the environment, and any modifications Apple makes to Bash. Obviously a Mac OS X environment is different from an Ubuntu one, but they are both Unix systems at their heart, and that will help.

(Note that I have never used a Mac.)

[Kilon]

I dual boot Mac OS X 10.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 on my iMac - is there any difference between the Terminals on the 2 OSes?

i.e. If I wrote a shellscript in Ubuntu could I run it on the Mac Terminal.app?

I use BaSH in both cases.

There are some commands missing from MacOsX , if i remember correctly , "make" command is not there you have to install it yourself.

look here

http://www.ss64.com/osx/

[escapee]

There are some commands missing from MacOsX , if i remember correctly , "make" command is not there you have to install it yourself.

look here

http://www.ss64.com/osx/

make gets installed with the Developer Tools, not recommended to install from source.


Virtually anything you'll use is identical, if something is different it won't be much of a tweak.

[Paul Miller]

OS X 10.5 has bash as its default shell; versions before that use tcsh as the default shell.

[wmcbrine]

OS X 10.5 has bash as its default shell; versions before that use tcsh as the default shell.I'm not sure when the change was, but it wasn't in 10.5. 10.4 also uses bash.

Edit: It looks like 10.3 was the first to default to bash. (Of course, if you upgraded from 10.2 or earlier, your old account's default wouldn't be changed.)

[Mbengi Bongi]

Yep, It's definitely Bash I'm using.

[mssever]

Some commands have different options. MacOS is derived from BSD, which doesn't use GNU tools. GNU tools--which are used in Linux--have a number of extensions beyond the POSIX standard.

[Mbengi Bongi]

I had a feeling that was the case.