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illegal option on macOS (date -d, readlink -f, grep -P) macOS: date: illegal option -- d / readlink: illegal option -- f / grep: invalid option -- P
macOS · layer 6, Platform & cloud
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macOS: zsh: command not found: brew (Homebrew not on PATH on Apple Silicon)
Homebrew is installed in /opt/homebrew on Apple Silicon Macs, which isn’t on PATH until you add its shellenv line.
bash: command not found
The shell can’t find an executable with that name in any directory on your PATH.
Homebrew: Error: No available formula with the name "x". Did you mean ...?
Homebrew can't find a formula or cask with that name in the taps it knows.
Homebrew: Error: Your Command Line Tools (CLT) are too outdated. Update them from Software Update / Please update to the latest macOS
Homebrew requires a newer Command Line Tools version than the one installed.
Homebrew: Error: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/Chrome.app'
A cask install failed because the app is already installed manually (or a leftover exists).
macOS (Apple Silicon): zsh: bad CPU type in executable: ./tool
You ran an Intel (x86_64) program on an Apple Silicon Mac without Rosetta 2 (or an arm64 binary on an Intel Mac).
macOS: sed: 1: "file.txt": invalid command code f / extra characters at the end of p command
macOS ships BSD `sed`, where `-i` requires a backup-suffix argument, unlike GNU sed on Linux.
Two steps away (18)
OCI runtime create failed: exec: "x": executable file not found in $PATH
The command you asked the container to run doesn’t exist inside the image — wrong command name, a shell that isn’t installed (bas…
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
A glob like * expanded to more file names than the kernel allows in one command (ARG_MAX), so the command never ran.
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun
The Xcode Command Line Tools are missing or broken — typical right after a macOS update.
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
You ran a Git command outside a Git working tree.
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory
A file or directory the program tried to open doesn’t exist at that path.
Linux: Permission denied
Your user (or the service user) lacks read/write/execute permission on a file, directory or one of its parents.
Homebrew: Error: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/Cellar / /opt/homebrew is not writable
Homebrew can't write to its prefix because the folders are owned by another user or root.
Homebrew: Error: Failure while executing; `git fetch --force origin` exited with 128 / fatal: not in a git directory
`brew update` couldn't fetch the Homebrew repositories — network, a broken git state or safe.directory problems.
zsh: compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list. Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]?
zsh refuses to load completions from directories owned by another user or writable by others.
gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected!
node-gyp on macOS can’t find the Xcode Command Line Tools to compile native modules.
macOS: Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please run "sudo xcodebuild -license" and then retry this command
A new Xcode (or CLT) version needs its license accepted before command-line tools run.
macOS: xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
A command needs the full Xcode app, but `xcode-select` points to the Command Line Tools only.
macOS: “app” cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software / Apple could not verify “app” is free of malware that may harm your Mac
Gatekeeper blocked an app that is not notarized by Apple.
macOS: “app” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer
Gatekeeper refuses to open an app that isn't signed with a registered Developer ID.
zsh: no matches found: package[extra] (glob pattern not matched)
zsh treats `[ ]`, `*` or `?` in an argument as a glob and fails when nothing matches, unlike bash which passes the text through.
exec /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: exec format error
The container tried to run a binary built for a different CPU architecture (arm64 vs amd64) — or a script with a broken shebang /…
macOS: dlopen: mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64')
A library or binary was built for a different CPU architecture than the process loading it.
macOS: dyld[123]: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib — Reason: tried: ... (no such file)
A program needs a dynamic library that is missing or was moved/removed (often after a Homebrew upgrade).
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