I do brew search date unsuccessfully. I have coreutils in my system. I could not find GNU date anywhere.
How can you have GNU date in OS X?
asked Mar 16, 2016 at 17:19
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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The gdate binary from coreutils should be the gnu date program:
$ gdate --version date (GNU coreutils) 8.25 Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David MacKenzie. If you don't have that in the path, perhaps brew rm coreutils && brew install coreutils would be a place to start as well as inspecting your $PATH
- 13...if you have to run scripts which require GNU tools (e.g. MXE make process, which will stumble when using Apple
date), you can temporarily modify your shell withPATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH". In that directory, a symbolic link togdatewithout the "g" prefix will be provided.jvb– jvb2022-11-16 17:45:38 +00:00Commented Nov 16, 2022 at 17:45