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silasmariner@programming.dev 3 weeks agoAs long as you don’t try to use sed or grep. Literally the only reason I learned perl was because of the flag incompatibilities between macos Unix and Linux utils.
galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah true, but if you use macOS expecting Linux that doesn’t make any sense. Then it’d just be Linux with a different DE lol. Hopefully doesn’t come across as snarky but pointing these differences out always seems rather pointless to me, they do exist but I mean yeah it’s not the same os.
silasmariner@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah I guess, but it’s still annoying to have identically named tools that do the same job but aren’t compatible. Or, like,
base64 -don macos can gobble the last char of output. So then you have to homebrew coreutils or something, but it just means that stuff that you feel should work compatibly out-of-the-box doesn’t, and writing *nix scripts without perl is just a pita.I forget what my point here is.