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0 pointsmveety9y ago0 comments

A shell is a shell for the most part. The details can be a bit different (like your $PATH), but otherwise its largely the same.

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JeremyMorgan9y ago

Yep. Mostly the same. Hence the reason I question why FreeBSD might be worth it. The overlap of OSX and FreeBSD at the shell is quite great, but you can't run a lot of OSX apps on FreeBSD. I'd venture to guess you could run a lot more FreeBSD apps on OSX.

noobermin9y ago

try

   rm -rf somedir/

   rm somedir/ -rf

Linux (the former) allows me to be lazy while MacOS (the latter) forces me to hit crtl-a and insert -rf.

loeg9y ago

GNU rm (coreutils) vs BSD rm.

aorth9y ago

I will never get used to the trailing slash on source arguments in BSD cp (that copies directory contents rather than the directory itself)! The first thing I do on an OS X machine is install GNU coreutils.

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noobermin9y ago

Major correction, the former is MacOS and the latter is Linux allowed (options can be before positional arguments).

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JeremyMorgan9y ago

noobermin9y ago

try

   rm -rf somedir/

   rm somedir/ -rf

Linux (the former) allows me to be lazy while MacOS (the latter) forces me to hit crtl-a and insert -rf.

loeg9y ago

GNU rm (coreutils) vs BSD rm.

aorth9y ago

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noobermin9y ago

Major correction, the former is MacOS and the latter is Linux allowed (options can be before positional arguments).

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