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by dfe 457 days ago
macOS doesn't have GNU coreutils at all. It has the utils from FreeBSD.

The gobsmackingly ancient GNU software it does have is bash, because it's the last version under GPL 2. I've used Mac OS X since 10.1, so I remember when the default shell was tcsh and /bin/sh was not bash.

That's (basically) the case again on the last few macOS releases. Today, zsh is my shell of choice, including on Linux.