So, how come Apple won't give me any command-line priveleges? No grep, no awk, no sed, no finger, no who, no ls -latr, no korn shell, no cron jobs, and no tar. No man pages for heaven's sake.
That ain't Unix. Unix is meant to be hacked at and manipulated by glasses wearing, Mountain Dew and coffee guzzling geeks like me (minus the Mountain Dew, and strictly decaf on the coffee.... but I do wear glasses...
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FWIW, Unix is the most stable platform you'll find out there, and having a backend server and storage array that is Unix based isn't a bad idea. However, the cost can be quite prohibitive.
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Carolyn (partial to Unix, forced to do more Windows than a housewife...
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