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Leopard Guides: Scripting & Automation
Based to a large degree on its UNIX technology-based foundation, Mac OS X supports a large range of open source scripting languages. In addition to supporting common shell scripts, Mac OS X includes many popular scripting languages, including Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Additional scripting facilities for Mac OS X are available from various open source groups.
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Shell Scripting Primer (HTML) (PDF)
A guided tour of (Bourne) shell scripting, including control structures, numerical computation, regular expressions, subroutines, and error handling.
 2009-04-08
Ruby and Python Programming Topics for Mac OS X (HTML) (PDF)
Describes Ruby and Python on Mac OS X, and especially the bridges between them and Objective-C and OSA (AppleScript).
 2007-10-31