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brew install coreutils v9.11 GPL-3.0-or-later

GNU implementation of standard Unix utilities (cat, ls, cp, sed, awk, etc.) for file, shell, and text operations.

Why you might care

Homebrew coreutils provides GNU versions of core utilities with extended features and POSIX compliance, useful when scripts assume GNU semantics rather than BSD defaults on macOS. Install with a 'g' prefix (gcat, gls, gcp, etc.) to avoid conflicts with system tools, or replace them wholesale in your PATH for consistency with Linux environments.

Categories

file-utility shell text-processor

Alternatives

busybox toybox moreutils
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Runtime dependencies

gmp

Links

Caveats

Commands also provided by macOS and the commands dir, dircolors, vdir have been installed with the prefix "g".
If you need to use these commands with their normal names, you can add a "gnubin" directory to your PATH with:
  PATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"

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