Minimal safe Bash script template

Re:Minimal safe Bash script template by eropple on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:41AM (#25444654)

So what you can do, though, is not link them in and your scripts can use their Homebrew directory to get ahold of the GNU binaries. It is still a script change you have to make, but it's one you can make at a top level and then your bash wranglers are very unlikely to break them.

(Though I use those as daily-driver packages on Macs and have actually never had something break? GNU tools tend to support BSD options.)

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Re:Minimal safe Bash script template by xmodem on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:23AM (#25454925)

Maybe this is easier with the way homebrew does things (I prefer MacPorts) but then you have to manage a bunch of symlinks to bring in the stuff you DO want to use by default.

I actually hadn't thought to try this approach, though. The next time this happens I will definitely give it a shot.

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Re:Minimal safe Bash script template by eropple on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:21AM (#25456968)

Homebrew does collate them all in a couple of directories for you, yeah.

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