How to run C program on Mac OS X using Terminal?

First save your program as program.c. Now you need the compiler, so you need to go to App Store and install Xcode which is Apple’s compiler and development tools. How to find App Store? Do a “Spotlight Search” by typing ⌘Space and start typing App Store and hit Enter when it guesses correctly. App Store … Read more

Running bash script from within python

Making sleep.sh executable and adding shell=True to the parameter list (as suggested in previous answers) works ok. Depending on the search path, you may also need to add ./ or some other appropriate path. (Ie, change “sleep.sh” to “./sleep.sh”.) The shell=True parameter is not needed (under a Posix system like Linux) if the first line … Read more

source command not found in sh shell

/bin/sh is usually some other shell trying to mimic The Shell. Many distributions use /bin/bash for sh, it supports source. On Ubuntu, though, /bin/dash is used which does not support source. Most shells use . instead of source. If you cannot edit the script, try to change the shell which runs it.