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There are three methods for calling prefixed GNU utilities interactively non-prefixed aliasing, hashing, and wrapper functions. Two of these methods are unreliable and are discussed bellow for reference only. The aliasing method is unreliable since aliases are at risk of being overridden resulting in non-GNU utilities being called with invalid switches. The hashing method is unreliable because hashed commands are lost whenever hash -r or rehash -f are called. Thus, said built-ins have to be wrapped to rehash GNU utilities. Unfortunately, altering $path will cause Zsh to call the built-in rehash instead of the wrapped one resulting in the hashed commands being lost. The wrapper function method is currently the most reliable and is the one used. |
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gnu-utils
Provides for the interactive use of GNU Core Utilities on non-GNU systems.
Installing the GNU Core Utilities on non-GNU systems in $PATH without
a prefix, i.e. ls instead of gls, is not recommended since scripts that
target other core utilities will be broken.
However, for interactive use, prefixed commands can be hashed to their non-prefixed counterparts.
Settings
Prefix
To use a different prefix, add the following to zshrc, and replace 'g' with the desired prefix:
zstyle ':omz:module:gnu-utils' prefix 'g'
Authors
The authors of this module should be contacted via the GitHub issue tracker.