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Ask HN: Default command line software in Mac OS
Hello! I haven't owned a Mac since the pre-OS X era, but so many positive comments around here are making me think about it. Do you know of a list with all the shell commands available by default? I know there is macports, but still I'm curious.
Thanks!
- jolan 17y agoIt's all the basic UNIX stuff + programming languages like Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
- ez77 17y agoOK, but in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241479 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241479 X-Istence mentions that curl ships with Mac OS while wget doesn't. I guess there isn't an official list, right?
- telemachos 17y agoIn terms of a list, you can try this (though I can't swear that it's completely up to date): http://ss64.com/osx/ http://ss64.com/osx/ Also, unless you install the developer tools (they are freely available on your install disk or you can download them), you don't have a compiler and other key development tools. But even before install the developer extras, you have a fairly full set of basic *nix tools and languages (Perl, Python and Ruby) to script in. Note that if you're used to the GNU version of the coreutils, find, etc., you may get some surprises in terms of flags. OS X uses BSD versions.