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macOS Tips & Tricks

If you have any macOS tips or tricks, or a favourite way of using it, please share

^{For general chat about Macs, please use our Mac Users Thread.}

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Use an alternative to Finder

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odd

Rectangle is very handy for moving and resizing windows with a keyboard.

If you use Homebrew, you can disable analytics.

export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

brew analytics off

Other than that, try not to leave terminal I guess

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hubertlepicki

Replacing BSD utils with GNU utils is quite useful if you’re coming from Linux

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/skyzyx/3438280b18e4f7c490db8a2a2ca0b9da

homebrew-gnubin.md

# macOS is a Unix, and not built on Linux.

I think most of us realize that macOS isn't a Linux OS, but what that also means is that instead of shipping with the GNU flavor of command line tools, it ships with the FreeBSD flavor. As such, writing shell scripts which can work across both platforms can sometimes be challenging.

## Homebrew

[Homebrew](https://brew.sh) can be used to install the GNU versions of tools onto your Mac, but they are all prefixed with "g" by default.

> All commands 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 from your bashrc.

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provides.md

## `coreutils` provides:

`[`, `b2sum`, `base32`, `base64`, `basename`, `basenc`, `cat`, `chcon`, `chgrp`, `chmod`, `chown`, `chroot`, `cksum`, `comm`, `cp`, `csplit`, `cut`, `date`, `dd`, `df`, `dir`, `dircolors`, `dirname`, `du`, `echo`, `env`, `expand`, `expr`, `factor`, `false`, `fmt`, `fold`, `groups`, `head`, `hostid`, `id`, `install`, `join`, `kill`, `link`, `ln`, `logname`, `ls`, `md5sum`, `mkdir`, `mkfifo`, `mknod`, `mktemp`, `mv`, `nice`, `nl`, `nohup`, `nproc`, `numfmt`, `od`, `paste`, `pathchk`, `pinky`, `pr`, `printenv`, `printf`, `ptx`, `pwd`, `readlink`, `realpath`, `rm`, `rmdir`, `runcon`, `seq`, `sha1sum`, `sha224sum`, `sha256sum`, `sha384sum`, `sha512sum`, `shred`, `shuf`, `sleep`, `sort`, `split`, `stat`, `stdbuf`, `stty`, `sum`, `sync`, `tac`, `tail`, `tee`, `test`, `timeout`, `touch`, `tr`, `true`, `truncate`, `tsort`, `tty`, `uname`, `unexpand`, `uniq`, `unlink`, `uptime`, `users`, `vdir`, `wc`, `who`, `whoami`, `yes`

## `ed` provides:

`ed`, `red`

## `gawk` provides:

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