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Yes, Claude Code has a Bash tool, and Claude in some cases uses the CLI sed utility (via the Bash tool) for file changes (although it has built-in file update), at least on my Linux machine.


Interesting - thanks.

I just asked Claude, and apparently CC makes it's bash tool available on all platforms it runs on (Linux, macOS, Windows WSL, Git for Windows), and doesn't do platform-specifc filtering of bash commands, which would seem to make for some interesting incompatibilities - GNU utils (sed, grep, find) on Linux and Windows, but BSD variants on macOS.


Claude code will semi-regularly try to use GNU utils on my Mac




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