/bin/date and coreutils

[David Liontooth]

paul beard wrote:
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> On May 7, 2007, at 12:13 PM, David Liontooth wrote:
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>> This is very cool, as it allows my scripts to be crossplatform.
>>
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> Sort of: on OS X you'll need to test for that and use gdate.
That's what I do with sed -- if gnused exists, use that.

Are there disadvantages to installing coreutils -- does it or could it
interefere with other programs? I'm a bit queasy, but I guess as long as
/opt/local/bin is last in the path it won't interfere.

Dave