I was wondering if there really is a huge difference between GNU coreutils and BSD coreutils. I was wondering because lots of linux applications have been ported to freebsd, and I was wondering if ports have to take a huge amount of time out of there day rewriting to use BSD coreutils. And if i was to switch, how much would my workflows be impacted. (Technical Answers Welcome)
The one example I'm familiar with is sed and it's in-place edit option (-i). It's available in the GNU coreutils option, but not in the BSD coreutils. You can work around the lack of -i by directing sed's output back to the file.
I was wondering if there really is a huge difference between GNU coreutils and BSD coreutils. I was wondering because lots of linux applications have been ported to freebsd, and I was wondering if ports have to take a huge amount of time out of there day rewriting to use BSD coreutils. And if i was to switch, how much would my workflows be impacted. (Technical Answers Welcome)
The one example I'm familiar with is sed and it's in-place edit option (-i). It's available in the GNU coreutils option, but not in the BSD coreutils. You can work around the lack of -i by directing sed's output back to the file.