Running *ix Commandline tools in Macbook Air? VNC? Virtual-machine? Usable or too slow? [closed]

Solution 1:

Mac OSX is a certified UNIX machine so of course you can use command line tools. If you're finding yourself yearning after Linux tools then I recommend you try Homebrew which is a package manager for Mac. which works in a similar way to apt-get and contains many ports of standard tools.

As @Bicou suggests, MacPorts is another option to achieve similar aims.

As far as the tools you mentioned specifically: awk comes as standard on OSX (it's on my machine in /usr/bin/) and imagemagick is available in Homebrew since running:

$ brew search imagemagick

returns

imagemagick
homebrew/versions/imagemagick-ruby186