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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by samstave on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:17PM (#11392124)
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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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by umanwizard on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:51AM (#11395244)
We have exactly what you're talking about. It's called POSIX.

"The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX)

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:00PM (#11393375)
I would argue that gnu coreutils is this base. Available on al *Nix OS, including Mac.
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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by umanwizard on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:50AM (#11395239)
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.

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