> You’re right that defaulting to the GNU coreutils is probably more convenient. It's not about convenience. It is about having a development environment that

> You’re right that defaulting to the GNU coreutils is probably more convenient. It's not about convenience. It is about having a development environment that matches the target runtime environment. You can run into nasty surprises when the default behavior of a tool in your dev environment is different than in your production environment. I've been writing shell scripts professionally for over 20 years and I have always taken this approach and it has served me well.