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It takes a second to install gnu coreutils with homebrew and make Macs barely useable
by jcelerier 3y ago
It takes a second to install gnu coreutils with homebrew and make Macs barely useable
- emmelaich 3y agoOr just use Perl
- DonHopkins 3y agoAs long as you're using stone knives, might as well throw in some bear skins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F226oWBHvvI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F226oWBHvvI
- emmelaich 3y agoFun! But honestly there's a place for Perl. There's far less variance between Perls on different systems than there are for sed/awk/shell. So if you want performant portable code, Perl does better than all of those. I'd never use Perl for a 'big' program these days but it still beats the crap out of the mess of sed/awk/bash/ksh/zsh.
- freedomben 3y agoApple has been threatening to remove perl for ages. One of these days they'll find the "courage" to do so and we'll need a better strategy.
- arp242 3y agoFreeBSD removed Perl from base ages ago, in FreeBSD 5 or 6. That went alright. I don't even have it on my Linux system any more; for better or worse, fewer and fewer things use it.
- dolni 3y agoI much prefer Linux but having used Macs a few times for work, I absolutely cannot recommend making GNU coreutils the default option on Macs. If you make GNU coreutils the first binaries in PATH, you can expect subtle, _very nasty_ issues. The last one I encountered was `hostname` taking something like 5 seconds to run. Before that, there was some bug with GNU’s stty which I don’t remember the specifics of.