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TODO

Homebrew installs standard tools always with the GNU prefix g. In order to use scripts that runs also on standard Linux systems, the binaries in the gnubin directory must be included into ${PATH} and ${MANPATH} environment variables.

# add homebrew installed tools to PATH and MANPATH
# coreutils
PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:${PATH}"
MANPATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnuman:${MANPATH}"
# sed
PATH="$(brew --prefix gnu-sed)/libexec/gnubin:${PATH}"
MANPATH="$(brew --prefix gnu-sed)/libexec/gnuman:${MANPATH}"
# xargs
PATH="$(brew --prefix findutils)/libexec/gnubin:${PATH}"
MANPATH="$(brew --prefix findutils)/libexec/gnuman:${MANPATH}"
export PATH
export MANPATH