Anonymousemail via GNU coreutils General Discussion <[email protected]> writes:
> One more thing, just to add insult to injury: find itself isn't even > consistent across platforms. On macOS (BSD), -executable doesn't exist > and the permission syntax differs from Linux (GNU). So anyone working > on both systems has to remember two different syntaxes to do the same > thing. An option in ls would solve that portability problem too. FWIW, GNU findutils is available in Homebrew for macOS and all the BSD ports trees. Also, FreeBSD specifically does adopt GNU extensions that they deem useful. E.g., they added -executable was added in 2024 [1]. Collin [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/e4b646ce16105efc943bc8ac2242a2220dfe18d8
