run bash script on a MAC?

[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