<![endif] Hong Xu RSS Blog Archives Open Source Projects About | Comments If you are moving onto Mac OS X from Linux, you would probably find out that the command line tools shipped with Mac OS X are not as powerful and easy to use as the tools in Linux. The reason is that Mac OS X uses the BSD version command line tools, which are different from the Linux version, while they are both compliant with POSIX standards. But we can easily install the GNU tools by using Homebrew in Mac OS X and set them as default. Note: you need to notice that you may have some compatibility issues with shell scripts written specifically for OS X after you have replaced your OS X commands with the GNU version. Although the very vast majority of shell scripts have no problem, you just need to be aware that when there comes a problem, this may be the spot to check on. more First, ...