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Cross-OS compatibility with GNU tools (readlink, sed, zcat, zless, zdiff, ...) for Mac OS X towards Linux
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# DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM: Implementations of sed, readlink, zcat, etc. are different on OS X and Linux. | |
# NOTE: Put this on top of your script using sed, readlink, zcat, etc. that should work alike on Mac OS X. | |
# cross-OS compatibility (greadlink, gsed, zcat are GNU implementations for OS X) | |
[[ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]] && { | |
which greadlink gsed gzcat > /dev/null && { | |
unalias readlink sed zcat | |
alias readlink=greadlink sed=gsed zcat=gzcat | |
} || { | |
echo 'ERROR: GNU utils required for Mac. You may use homebrew to install them: brew install coreutils gnu-sed' | |
exit 1 | |
} | |
} | |
# NOTE: Now all uses of `sed`, `readlink`, `zcat`, etc. will refer to their GNU implementation in your script below. | |
# NOTE: In order to use the original implementation for Mac OS X again you'd have to do `unalias ...` (as in line 7 above). |
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Note: If you are using this within a script you will also need to add: 'shopt -s expand_aliases' to the script