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Message: <blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 332319" data-attributes="member: 9385">I seem to recall having to install perl with the Xcode stuff, but don't hold me to that.  If you install Xcode you will definitely have perl (and I'm pretty sure most of the libs).  I have a couple of scripts that rely on perl, as well as some that rely on certain darwin ports.vi and emacs are already there in the shell (funny how I edit the vast majority of my text files with vi, but there is one, little thing that I use TextEdit for, and one little thing for which I use emacs.)  There's all the usual stuff (tar, zip, ls) and even some extras that I use all the time, like lam, and some that I haven't really found a use for yet, like open.   Just about every bash script I've written on Linux came right over to the Mac and worked without modification.</blockquote>