Using SETI@Home as an example, Remo Del Bello shares this tip for creating scripts that can be saved and launched from the OS X Finder. Although SETI@Home is the basis for this example, this can work ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...