How to use GNU sed on Mac OS 10.10+, ‘brew install –default-names’ no longer supported

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Note (2019):

The --with-default-names option is removed since January 2019, so now that option is not available anymore.

When installing, Homebrew instructs on how to adapt the path, if one wants to use sed without the g prefix.

You already have the gnu-sed installed without the --with-default-names option.

  • With --with-default-names option it installs sed to /usr/local/bin/
  • Without that option it installs gsed

So in your case what you gotta do is:

$ brew uninstall gnu-sed
$ brew install gnu-sed --with-default-names

Update path if needed…

$ echo $PATH | grep -q '/usr/local/bin'; [ $? -ne 0 ] && export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
$ echo a | sed 's_A_X_i'

or use gsed as others suggested.

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