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_delirium
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Apple’s great GPL purge
Yeah, I recently realized why various bash examples I tried out don't work on OSX. I guess it's an obvious thing to check, but somehow it never occurred to me that OSX's bash would be
five years
old.
Cieplak
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Also worth noting, osx uses bsd versions of various utilities like grep and sed, instead of gnu counterparts
Interesting sidenote:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...
adsr
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Some bash examples contains Linuxisms that is not UNIX-03 compliant which OS X is in full, might be that as well.
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