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by moviuro 2957 days ago
bash is completely out of date on macOS (GPL2 vs. GPL3), and not shipped on any *BSD AFAICT.

Some Linux distro don't ship it either (void, alpine IIRC).

And, most of the time, bash is used because people don't know any better, see e.g. https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/8405/files
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falsedan 2957 days ago
> bash is completely out of date on macOS

I love finding and removing all the GNU/Linux-ism in my bash code when I move it from a dev host to my personal laptop. macOS coreutils don't have GNU longopts, surprise!

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umanwizard 2957 days ago
In case you didn't know: if you really need some GNU tool, you can do `brew install coreutils` (assuming you use Homebrew).

The installed binaries will have their names prefixed with `g`; e.g. `gdate` instead of `date`.

If something you want isn't part of coreutils, you can often install it directly; e.g. `brew install gawk` or the weirdly-named `brew install gnu-sed` (which names its installed binary `gsed`... go figure.)

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falsedan 2956 days ago
I know this; but can I teach every potential user of my scripts this same fact through documentation I have to maintain? What if: I write the code so that documenting it is easier?
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