Running barf on MacOS

2023-01-18

The barf project was built on Linux and was catered towards Linux users. The core of the project will remain focused on Linux/GNU tools, but that doesn’t mean MacOS needs to be left out in the cold.

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This walkthrough assumes that you already have homebrew installed on your machine.

You will need to install the GNU versions of both date and sed in order to avoid breaking things when barf tries to build.

brew install coreutils
brew install gnu-sed

Now everything should work as intended!