alt Hacker NewsI use a Mac, so the CLIs are the BSD versions. I don't have any opinion on which is better, but it's just annoying that it's different from GNU, so a lot of my work ends up being on a Linux VM or server instead. POSIX compliance doesn't seem to buy me anything. I like the BSD license though.
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thesuitonym • yesterday at 8:07 PM
POSIX compliance doesn't buy you anything because you're trying to use GNU extensions, which aren't in POSIX.
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frumplestlatz • yesterday at 6:26 PM
If you stick to POSIX, things generally work everywhere. It's not really a question of what is better, just what is portable.
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The GNU versions work fine in macOS. Apple doesn’t want to distribute them, but that’s mean you can’t use them.