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bigyabai • today at 4:34 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

The default Mac terminal environment is the Weetabix of UNIX-likes. You need GNU coreutils to do pretty much anything.

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rz2k • today at 5:16 AM

I'm confused. Isn't coreutils a just small subset of even macOS's current zsh's builtins? What do you prefer about systemd to launchd? defaults seems like a convenient way to manage settings. Is it confusing for people from other operating systems?

hollerith • today at 4:38 AM

Name one thing lacking in the utilities included with MacOS (which come from BSD).

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