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		_delirium on Feb 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s great GPL purge Yeah, I recently realized why various bash examples I tried out don't work on OSX. I guess it's an obvious thing to check, but somehow it never occurred to me that OSX's bash would be five years old.

Cieplak on Feb 7, 2012 | [–]

Also worth noting, osx uses bsd versions of various utilities like grep and sed, instead of gnu counterparts

Interesting sidenote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...

adsr on Feb 7, 2012 | [–]

Some bash examples contains Linuxisms that is not UNIX-03 compliant which OS X is in full, might be that as well.

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