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GNU and BSD utility incompatibility

The long-standing differences in flags and defaults between GNU and BSD implementations of standard Unix tools such as sed, date, stat and grep.

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Claude Code's Bash tool hands every command to macOS zsh

On a Mac the tool named Bash calls zsh, and the GNU coreutils you put first on PATH in your profile never reach it, because the snapshot Claude Code replays before every call takes its PATH from Claude Code's own process.

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