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		howinteresting on April 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wait, did Microsoft kill sleep? Does sed -i work on macOS these days? It works great on WSL. The macOS toolchain sucks and typing in gsed all the time sucks even more.

misnome on April 25, 2023 [–]

Your beef appears to be with BSD. And when you install the GNU tools it tells you how to setup your path to not have the prefix.

howinteresting on April 25, 2023 | [–]

Yes, the GNU toolchain is leaps beyond BSD.

Ah yes, and then plenty of scripts that assume BSD sed break.

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