As of GNU coreutils 7.5 released in August 2009, sort allows a -h parameter, which allows numeric suffixes of the kind produced by du -h: du -hs * | sort -h If you are using a sort that does not support -h, you can install GNU Coreutils. E.g. on an older Mac OS X: brew … Read more
Once downloaded they will be located in the bin directory: and then you will use it the same way you use it on linux by passing the same args.
You have several options to set up variables from outside your makefile: From environment – each environment variable is transformed into a makefile variable with the same name and value. You may also want to set -e option (aka –environments-override) on, and your environment variables will override assignments made into makefile (unless these assignments themselves … Read more
gcc can actually compile c++ code just fine. The errors you received are linker errors, not compiler errors. Odds are that if you change the compilation line to be this: which makes it link to the standard c++ library, then it will work just fine. However, you should just make your life easier and use g++. EDIT: … Read more
This is a known bug on the initial 2.5.1, and has been fixed in early 2007 (Redhat 2.5.1-5) according to the bug reports. Unfortunately Apple is still using 2.5.1 even on Mac OS X 10.7.2. You could get a newer version via Homebrew (3.0) or MacPorts (2.26) or fink (3.0-1). Edit: Apparently it has been fixed on OS X 10.11 (or maybe earlier), even … Read more