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my workaround for awk, sed, and grep has been to create symlinks in my $Path that point to gawk, gsed, and ggrep, which you can install through brew. Nix has also been useful to keep my sanity intact, tho it's a learning curve too, and when Macos updates happen you will need to fix/reinstall it. Can I ask what terminal you are using?
The problem with this is that scripts assume the BSD versions of those tools. The scripts break if I do that. (I tried doing that.) π’
The parts of the code base that can be built on both platforms is littered with:
Why not set an
$awkvar once for the right platform and then use that instead of if-on-every-call? This seems incredibly error prone and verbose for no reason...Edit: To be clear I'm aware that it isn't about the binary, but surely most of the calls have some baseline commonality that could be abstracted? Or: Can the Linux awk be built on bsd or vice versa? Ok fine, if it was the simple, it would've probably been the solution...