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Add support for brew base64 on Mac OS X #110

Closed oubiwann closed 9 years ago

oubiwann commented 10 years ago

From an IRC comment/feedback:

<strg> oh. btw. I had some problems with the base64 command in lfetool.
           On OSX it is a special case in the script because the base64
           option -d is -D. But I use homebrew and had the coreutils
           bottle installed (for better ls etc.) and that one has a base64
           too, but with the -d option. Maybe if the script would use
           '/usr/bin/base64' explicitly on Darwin?
ghost commented 9 years ago

Ok, a bit more context: When you install the coreutils package the GNU commands contained therein are linked with a g prefix. So the command is actually gbase64, which should not be a problem. But the homebrew package info of coreutils also states

If you really need to use these commands with their normal names, you
can add a "gnubin" directory to your PATH from your bashrc like:

    PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"

Thats what I did. So a normal install does not clash with the system version of base64.

oubiwann commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the very helpful update!

Just added a "documentation" label for this one so that it might be easier for folks to find when using homebrew's base64 on Mac.