How To Make macOS Command Utilities Compatible With GNU Core Utilities

Installing GNU command utilities on macOS

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The macOS doesn’t contain some GNU programs (watch, wget, wdiff, gdb, autoconf) and comes with BDS counterpart programs (sed, tar, which, grep, awk, to name a few). Also, some GNU programs installed on macOS are outdated (e.g. bash, emacs, less, nano, etc.).