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I may be waaaaayyyy off base here, but I had always considered /usr as a receptacle for things that aren't part of the base OS.
As there are /bin and /sbin, there are /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. These...

To access the content of a hidden folder, you just have to know the path.

If both drives were named the same (Macintosh HD), then the "external" will show up as "Macintosh HD 2".
If it is not...

Is SIP enabled?

Launch Terminal and issue: csrutil status

If it is enabled, and you want to disable it, you can only do that from the recovery partition.

After booting from recovery...

Did you try booting into Safe Mode (hold shift key down during bootup)?

Questions:
Is this a business requirement?

Is there the possibility you will be able to install the solution in the same timeframe as the vendor?

Do you have standard operational fallback...

grep has the ability to search for characters at the beginning of a line. If you look at the examples section of the man page for grep you'll see it.


grep -v '^0'


should work.

There is also an immutable file flag on some systems. :)

I think you will not find a translator like what you're looking for.
This might help you understand why (expounding on wisecracker's post above):
what's the difference between linux and unix...

I don't think there is a straight forward (nor advisable) method to disable IPV6, but you can set it to "Link-local only", which effectively removes the overhead for actual network related tasks.
...

The most important thing you should learn how to use is the "man" command (short for manual).

if you want to find out about a command and what it does, issue the following commands and learn what...

True enough. man pages are your friend. As stated previously, might as well start at the start. man man. You can scroll with the up and down arrows on your keyboard.

For instance, I have two...

There ya go.
launchctl will happily unload "com.mysql.mysql.plist" because, well, it's loaded, but you have to specify the path in order to load it.
Since "/com.mysql.mysql.plist" doesn't exist,...

Yes. OS X GUI allows / in file names, but OS X unix cleverly replaces / with : which is allowed in unix. There's a sort of understanding between the GUI and the gooey unixie goodness.

You will see...

As an old-schooler and purely a rudimentary level scripter, I typically issue the command, then test the result.

grep -q "ERROR" /home/infrmtca/bin/logfile
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
echo...

In a while read loop, you could
check the line for [8] then
echo line >> ip_stuff_file_name
otherwise
echo line >> not_ip_stuff_file_name
end check
done

move original_file_name to...

See: Loops (http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/loops1.html)
example 11-15

Then bookmark the main page: Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/)

:)

Plus, wget has it's own built in logging options?
From: man wget
Logging and Input File Options

-o logfile
--output-file=logfile
Log all messages to logfile. ...

You might want to put the success or failure checks into your connectdb1.sh and connectdb2.sh scripts, referencing the specific script names in the output from each.

That way you'll get more...

Typically, I just press the command+u key combination, launch the terminal, type sudo followed by a space, then drag the desired script to the terminal window.

For double click simplicity, I will...

Does your calling script do anything after the script call?

What happens (as far as we can tell) is:
Main script calls script 2
Script 2
preforms action
exit 0 (success)
Main script can get...

Did you try the plane old "route" command?

I vaguely recall you can put the /opt/local/bin first in your $PATH and it "should" find it there and run it.

An alternative might be to rename the /usr/bin/perl executible (perl.apple ?) and...

It works under Mountain Lion (10.8.2) traversing the folders and finding items.
It appears to run successfully under Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and Lion (10.7.4) but only reports /dev/fd/3 and /dev/fd/4...

Virtually everything "directory services" is handled by Apple's Directory Services or more currently, Open Directory.

Given AD is developed via Microsoft, and it therefore is a "different enough"...

dsconfigad -show

Can tell you whether the machine is/was configured and bound to AD, as well as some of the kerberos info you are looking for, in that context.