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Scripting

Scripting languages harness the power of the Unix command line. Mac OS X includes the most popular open source scripting languages ready to use out of the box.

The following shells and scripting languages are available as open source:

  • awk
  • bash
  • ksh
  • perl
  • PHP (apache_mod_php)
  • python
  • ruby
  • sed (text_cmds)
  • tcl
  • tcsh
  • XSLT (libxslt)
  • zsh

Articles

Introduction to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X

This article will help you get oriented with the huge range of open source scripting languages available on Mac OS X.

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Bug Reporting

Report bugs or make enhancement requests for the components listed above.

Darwin Source Code

Sources for the components listed above are available here.

BASH

The BASH shell website.

Korn Shell

The Korn Shell (ksh) website.

Awk

The Awk programming language website.

www.perl.org

The Perl website.

www.php.net

The PHP hypertext preprocessor website.

www.python.org

The Python website.

www.ruby-lang.org

The Ruby website.

www.tcl.tk

The Tcl/Tk website.

www.tcsh.org

The tcsh website.

www.xmlsoft.org

The libxml2 and libxslt website.

www.zsh.org

The Zsh website.