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@Tatsh Tatsh commented Jan 23, 2016

Prefixed versions may be used on a system that has a base BSD coreutils, such as OS X where using MacPorts GNU Coreutils can be installed, but by default are prefixed with 'g'. Even if PATH is overriden, the path used contains symbolic links to the g-prefixed binaries, which means the g-prefixed name is what will appear in the process list.

This also can apply to Solaris.

Prefixed versions may be used on a system that has a base BSD
coreutils, such as OS X where using MacPorts GNU Coreutils can be
installed, but by default are prefixed with 'g'. Even if PATH is
overriden, the path used contains symbolic links to the g-prefixed
binaries, which means the g-prefixed name is what will appear in the
process list.
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Tatsh commented May 31, 2021

@Xfennec I cleaned this up.

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