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2049 points bpierre | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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matt_wulfeck ◴[30 Mar 16 17:35 UTC] No.11391211[source]▶
microsoft is leveraging FOSS Linux to get Mac users. I think it's a real smart move.

The author points to using grep and Xargs and some other tools to quickly update a package. That's the key here. These bash/Linux utilities are productivy boosters for all the Linux and Mac/bsd people out there. I can't imagine living without them and they're necessary for any system I develop on (which is currently a Mac).

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samstave ◴[30 Mar 16 19:17 UTC] No.11392124[source]▶
Its actually kind of interesting that we dont have a literal "standard base" of tools that any OS should supply.

(unless I am missing something)

But it would make sense that certain things should be doable on literally any computer. grep, find, vi, edit, etc... etc... I cant come up with a complete list - but it would be great to start that direction.

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1. matt_wulfeck ◴[30 Mar 16 22:00 UTC] No.11393375[source]▶
I would argue that gnu coreutils is this base. Available on al *Nix OS, including Mac.
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2. umanwizard ◴[31 Mar 16 05:50 UTC] No.11395239[source]▶
OS X definitely doesn't ship with gnu coreutils. Sure, it's possible to install them manually.

Also, why gnu and not bsd? OS X's find, grep, sed, and so on work fine for me and are not gnu.