Dumb Question... How Do I Run a Program??

[lorkp]

I have installed cdrdao on my comptuer but I don't know how to run it from the terminal! What do I type?

[Treavize]

This app most likely has a man page which will explain ussage. Try entering man cdrdao in Terminal.

[lorkp]

thanks for the reply. Terminal says that there is no manual entry for cdrdao, any other ideas? The program is in /usr/local/bin. Here's the page that has all of the commands and such. http://linuxreviews.org/man/cdrdao/ It's just that when I type one it doesn't work and there's obviously something that I have to do first to get the program working. When I type a sample command from that link it sasy "-bash: cdrdao: command not found." I'm sure that it's very basic since they don't even mention it. Thanks again!

[tonyo]

Open terminal and type cd /usr/local/bin
type cdrdao
If it needs variable set, the output will probably tell you how to access them. But for sh***s and giggles try typing cdrdao -help.

Also, you need to set the environment variables for your shell - do a find on for this the main OSX hints site and you'll bump into quite a few hints relating to that. Without setting them you're going to have a hard time running 'nix stuff.

hth,

Tony

[lorkp]

when I go to /usr/local/bin and type cdrdao it says "-bash: cdrdao: command not found." I'm going to go and try to set the environment variables now

[hayne]

Please read the Unix FAQ that is a sticky thread at the top of this forum (Unix newcomers) section.

[seagull]

Hi,
Just a few hints (UNIX-gurus correct me if I'm wrong)

1 - The path to the location of the cdrdao program must be in yout $PATH-variable, check this with:

echo $PATH

2 - The program must be executable, use chmod to change executable flags, see "man chmod" for details

- Point 1 and 2 should be OK if your installation was correct, if not check your installation.

- Note that cdrdao is available through Fink , it is worth checking out if you have not tried it before

-seagull

[NovaScotian]

As an aside in this thread, Hayne's excellent FAQ is a must read before doing anything in the Terminal.

The one caveat I would add to it is that AppleScript uses bash in 10.3 for scripts containing "do shell script ..." even though tsch is the default shell in the Panther Terminal. Since there must be differences (or the two versions wouldn't coexist), it is worth noting that checking a script in the default terminal may not give the same result from a script. I'm sure Hayne could elaborate.

[lorkp]

Got it working! thanks guys

[guardian34]

Quote: Originally Posted by NovaScotian AppleScript uses bash in 10.3 for scripts containing "do shell script ..." even though tsch is the default shell in the Panther Terminal.

Actually, bash is the default shell for new users in Panther. If you upgraded to Panther from an earlier version, then your previous settings (e.g. using tcsh) will be retained.

[NovaScotian]

Quote: Originally Posted by guardian34 Actually, bash is the default shell for new users in Panther. If you upgraded to Panther from an earlier version, then your previous settings (e.g. using tcsh) will be retained.

That's it then - I've gone through all the OS X versions, but I've been too timid (even after reading Hayne's FAQ) to attempt to alter my default shell to bash.