Re: [Bitpim-devel] Startup script for BitPim on Macs

[Steven P. <n9...@n9...>]

On Mar 15, 2004, at 8:14 AM, Tom Pollard wrote:
> In any case, I've attached a shell script that could be used to 
> replace the current BitPim python startup script.  It uses a small 
> shell function to extract the parent directory name from a filepath 
> because the 'dirname' shell utility (like Python) is only there in 
> MacOS X if the user installs the optional BSD package. Otherwise, it's 
> just about line-for-line equivalent with the python version.

  I'm not interested in removing the BSD subsystem from my computer to 
test, but I see you state that `dirname` is not available unless you 
install the BSD subsystem. You are using `sed`, however, so that one 
*is* installed? Given this kind of thinking, it's probably somewhat 
arbitrary what commands Apple puts on your system as a CORE package 
versus the BSD package, because I would land `sed` as a part of the BSD 
subsystem as well, but it apparently is not. This makes it hard to be 
foolproof for future OS revisions as  well if you write a shell script 
that depends on certain commands being there (albeit minimal in this 
case.