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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by burntsushi on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:06PM (#38107639)
What kinds of patches have you made to the BSD coreutils programs that you use?
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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by torstenvl on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:10PM (#38107669)
https://github.com/torstenvl/betterls

To be fair, one of these two flags comes built in with GNU ls, but using GNU ls comes with the downside of losing support for macOS extended attributes (and GNU ls doesn't have --group-dots-extra-first).

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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by Pet_Ant on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:17PM (#38107718)
I mean that seems like a simple patch to upstream if it’s a real deal breaker for you….
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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by torstenvl on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:24PM (#38107777)
Or I can just continue being happy hacking on simple code bases.

It is not my responsibility to upstream anything. If you feel like it should be upstreamed, my additions are open source. Go for it.

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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by corbezzoli on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:29PM (#38108256)
You make it sound like just because you want and write something it will get merged into a project. It doesn’t work like that. Maintainers have a million reasons to say no and I have one reason to just use a different tool instead.
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