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You click a button marked "Install" in XCode and it installs the tools into /usr/bin. That sure is tough.

OS X userland is pretty stock BSD. It may be unfamiliar if you are used to Linux.

Putting the GNU tools on is pretty easy with Homebrew or MacPorts, though. Getting those is first thing I do when I set up a new Mac: grab Xcode, install the command line tools, get Homebrew, brew install coreutils, findutils, and gnu-sed.

That's an installed toolchain, not a properly working one.

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