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Formula Utilities v9.11

GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities

When to use

GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities. Use coreutils when you want a widely used utilities command-line package that can be installed and updated through Homebrew. It is one of FastBrew's top packages by Homebrew installs, with about 1M installs over the last year.

Install 1 App in Terminal
$ 
brew install 'coreutils'
Source: homebrew/core Website Homebrew

Dependencies

gmp

Conflicts With

b2sumgfoldidutils

Installation Notes

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"
Install Statistics 6.5% vs 90d

Install activity across time periods

Metric 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year
Total Installs 107.7K 303.4K 1.0M
Avg Daily Installs 3.6K 3.4K 2.9K

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