I finally figured it out. Here is the code in case anyone else who's new to this world and working on Mac OSX needs help.

To get the Command Line to Render in the Terminal Shell:
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Well I appreciate you not bashing my choice to use the Mac, as well. =)

So the latest is that I did finally find the Render file that needs to be used but still waiting on my friend for the final...

Thank you both. I believe the issue is that I have to teach my computer what "render" is. If I do render -r mr -help in the terminal it brings up all the commands except render.

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Maya Newbie here. Does anyone ever do command line rendering on Maya 2008 using a Mac and OSX? I can get all the codes entered in the Terminal but it won't recognize "render" and I can't figure out...