Using Homebrew and prefer GNU utils over OS X BSD programs? Add this to ~/.bashrc

bashrc.sh

# Use the GNU utils instead of the BSD versions from OS X
# Updates the path if anythings with a gnubin dir changes after
# upgrade
if [[ -n "$(brew --prefix )" ]] ; then
  if [[ -e ~/.GNUBINS ]] ; then
    GNUBINS=$(cat ~/.GNUBINS)
  else
    echo "Not Found GNUBINS"
    GNUBINS="___NotFoundGNUBINS___"
  fi
  for i in $(echo $GNUBINS|tr ':' ' ') ; do
    if [[ ! -d $i ]] ; then
      GNUBINS=$(find $(brew --prefix) -name gnubin|tr '\n' ':')
      echo $GNUBINS > ~/.GNUBINS
      echo "GNUBINS updated"
      break
    fi
  done

  PATH=$GNUBINS:$PATH
  echo Using GNU binaries from $GNUBINS by default
fi