As a Mac user, this also bugged me. One thing that helped was to... brew install coreutils ... and then adding gnubin to my path so I can use them without

As a Mac user, this also bugged me. One thing that helped was to... brew install coreutils ... and then adding gnubin to my path so I can use them without the "g" prefix: PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH" Now I no longer have to remember idiosyncrasies of the macOS versions, such as: # macOS cp -R # Linux cp -r