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Install GNU Core utils on macos
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gnu-core-utils.md

Replace macos terminal utilties with GNU Core utilities

These instructions are specific to fish shell ( Pls see references for bash)

  1. Install coreutils using homebrew
brew install coreutils
  1. Edit the fish config (~/.config/fish/config.fish) and add the below line
set -gx PATH /opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin $PATH              # Add GNU utilities to PATH
  1. Verify Changes
$ which date
/opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin/date

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