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What kinds of patches have you made to the BSD coreutils programs that you use?

To be fair, one of these two flags comes built in with GNU ls, but using GNU ls comes with the downside of losing support for macOS extended attributes (and GNU ls doesn't have --group-dots-extra-first).

I mean that seems like a simple patch to upstream if it’s a real deal breaker for you….

Or I can just continue being happy hacking on simple code bases.

It is not my responsibility to upstream anything. If you feel like it should be upstreamed, my additions are open source. Go for it.

You make it sound like just because you want and write something it will get merged into a project. It doesn’t work like that. Maintainers have a million reasons to say no and I have one reason to just use a different tool instead.

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