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Not sure why people think they can rely on the pre-installed Unix utilities on macOS.

EDIT: Apple routinely don't update the Unix utilities for a decade...

Yeah, those idiots! They buy something from Apple, and then find it doesn't work. What did they expect.

This, of course, is passive-aggressive snark. Suffice to say that I disagree with you; why shouldn't people expect software they buy from Apple to work? People buy from Apple because they don't want to have to deal with all this sort of crap; they just want it to work.

I am more surprised Apple doesnt invest in their own Unix utils packages honestly. Its not like they dont have the money to do so.

Steve Jobs originally wanted to strip out the shell entirely and only support POSIX at the level of the C API. To this day, Apple acts like they've been strong-armed into providing support for the Unix utilities.

I can understand the attitude that 99% of their userbase will never touch the command line, but that last 1% represents the developers that keep the whole ecosystem going.

We actually broadly agree that it is a shame that Apple don't support their Unix utilities.

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