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Authored by: Nugget on Apr 12, '04 11:39:07AM

The GNU tools aren't better, they're just different. For the record:

"ls -G" will give you color output.
"du -d" is du with depth reporting

and

"du -h" and "df -h" will give you end-user formatted numbers if that's your preference.

Installing the GNU stuff seems like overkill to me.



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Authored by: Gigacorpse on Apr 12, '04 11:58:37AM

I agree with you, although I do prefer the GNU date command options over the one Apple provides.



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Authored by: marcusmarrow on Apr 12, '04 11:57:40PM

A nice feature of the GNU ls which I can't replicate on my Mac is
to ignore backup files (files ending in ~).
With the GNU version, 'ls -B' did the job.



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Authored by: jptxs on Aug 25, '04 03:38:30PM

so if I choose not to go with the gnu tools, is there a way to have my terminal bahave like vt100 in terms of scrolling (not clear the screen after man and vi etc.) but still get my colors?



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