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Re:2048 in sed by celebril on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @07:36AM (#7465152)
Why doesn't Apple just ship with standard GNU utils?

They are the de facto standard. Having the need to compile all these basic stuff for any scripting to be portable is a nightmare.

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Re:2048 in sed by gkya on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @09:05AM (#7465566)
If your well-beloved GNU coreutils did not breach every POSIX standard and add new flags to every program, no such problem would exist. Seriously, I do not know whether Mac OS is using a custom implementation of UNIX utilities, or distributin BSD coreutils, but I know that it is a licensed, certified UNIX.
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Re:2048 in sed by celebril on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @09:11AM (#7465587)
UNIX certification means nothing if the utils are intentionally outdated and incompatible with the de facto UNIX-like implementation due to petty licensing concerns.

At the end of the day, whether some script works is the issue, not a UNIX branding.

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Re:2048 in sed by james2vegas on Friday March 28, 2014 @07:40PM (#7490676)
Except Mac OS X is a de jure UNIX implementation, and concern about GPLv3 is not petty.
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Re:2048 in sed by Spiritus on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:32AM (#7465405)
I believe it's a licensing issue, could be completely wrong though.
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Re:2048 in sed by 13throwaway on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:48AM (#7465467)
Apple has chosen not to ship any GPLv3 code.
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