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# Short of learning how to actually configure OSX, here's a hacky way to use | |
# GNU manpages for programs that are GNU ones, and fallback to OSX manpages otherwise | |
# Borrowed from https://gist.github.com/quickshiftin/9130153 | |
if which brew &> /dev/null; then | |
if brew list | grep coreutils &> /dev/null; then | |
alias man='_() { echo $1; man -M $(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman $1 1>/dev/null 2>&1; if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then man -M $(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman $1; else man $1; fi }; _' | |
fi | |
fi |
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Added a quick check to see if brew and coreutils are actually installed