Apple - To use STDBUF from Homebrew's coreutils
coreutils
on OS X adds the prefix g
to all the commands so as to not mess up with default programs on OS X.
It prints this when you run brew install coreutils
==> Caveats
All commands have been installed with the prefix 'g'.
If you really need to use these commands with their normal names, you
can add a "gnubin" directory to your PATH from your bashrc like:
PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
So unless you really need to use it as stdbuf
, there is no real reason to update your path, you can simply run gstdbuf
instead:
$ gstdbuf --help
Usage: gstdbuf OPTION... COMMAND
You have to alter your path adding coreutils
dir before /usr/bin
. You can do something like this:
export PATH=/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH
And should looks like the following after the changes:
/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:
/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:
/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin:
/Users/masi/.cabal/bin
After that, you must be able to use stdbuf
.