On Mar 14, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Leo Simons wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:I logged into moof just now, looking around, taking a peek at gumpy. Man, do I feel naked over there! Does anyone know of a 20-minute-introduction-to-commandline-OSX-for-linux-users? Or something like that?What are the big differences that you see?
try stuff like...
cd / ls -al
As has been said, it's fairly BSD like. I don't have an account on Moof, so can't tell you what OS it's exactly running (OSX, Server, or plain Darwin). However, from the root you'll see the normal usr, var, etc, dev, tmp et. al., some of which are symlinks pointing under /private. The OS is under /System, except for the kernel which sits in /. Add-ons go under /Library, and home dirs are under /Users.
cat /etc/group
The passwd and group files are only used when running single-user on Darwin. In multi-user, it uses NetInfo, a database which can be, but probably isn't, run domain wide and is a holdover from the NeXT era. Try
% nidump group /
On the command line to get the group list. See nidump(8).
set
Should be a shell built-in. See builtin(1). Note: man pages are not always up-to-date.
rpm -qa | grep perl apt-cache search perl
As has been noted, neither of these packaging systems are typically available. OSX uses its own packaging system which is much coarser. Perl should be on the machine though. I realize all my machines are tainted because I have developer tools on them, but I assume these are also available on Moof.
The Perl installation, modules etc. live under both /System/Library/Perl and /Library/Perl (I believe your own installations, as root, land in the latter). However, if you're not root the default install location may be under your own ~/Library/Perl, but that doesn't seem to be in the default search path (says perl -e 'print join("\n", @INC);'). Dunno.
ls -al /usr/bin/java
As someone said, the JVM sits under /System/Library, so you'll see that /usr/bin/java is a symlink to the current one. As you can see under /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions, you're getting a number of versions installed concurrently. If you're looking for something to point JAVA_HOME to, use /Library/Java/Home :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] projects $ ls -l /Library/Java/Home
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 48 2 Feb 14:58 /Library/Java/Home@ -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home
The target of this symlink is in turn a symlink into the latest JDK. If you need an earlier version, you can point directly into that installation.
Actually, I believe stuff like Tomcat's startup script has /Library/Java/Home as one of the fallbacks if JAVA_HOME is unset.
everything is different to me :-D
Yeah, it's different in a lot of ways, but most things should feel fairly familiar. What's your default shell? On the current version of the OS, it appears to be /bin/bash (should be familiar), but on older versions it was tcsh (might be a little odd but very BSD).
Let me know if you have any more questions.
S.
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