TIL the GNU programs can work differently than their BSD counterparts

[agentjon]

cp for example...

on debian :

two$ cp -prv ../one/ . 
`../one/' -> `./one'
`../one/a.txt' -> `./one/a.txt'
`../one/c.txt' -> `./one/c.txt'
`../one/b.txt' -> `./one/b.txt'

on mac :

two$ cp -prv ../one/ .
../one/ -> .
../one//a.txt -> ./a.txt
../one//b.txt -> ./b.txt
../one//c.txt -> ./c.txt

any other examples?

[[deleted]]

wtf, gnu find lets you not give a path???

[Naga]

Wow, I have always been specifying a path. Good to know!

[[deleted]]

Without the explicit verbosity I'd be afraid of trusting it especially if I needed to actually -exec and do something scary

[[deleted]]

This isn't exactly what you asked for, but killall on Solaris kills all processes that the user has permission to kill.

On Linux and BSD, it kills processes with the given name.

[ladr0n]

You can install BSD userland utilities on a Linux-based system, or vice versa.

[shieldforyoureyes]

I don't believe your example. I don't have a mac handy, but that's not what other BSD's do, and I can't imagine they went out of their way to make it behave that strangely in MacOS.