diff --git a/testing.sh b/testing.sh
index e8aed88..5b468aa 100755
--- a/testing.sh
+++ b/testing.sh
@@ -57,6 +57,20 @@ function get_time() {
   echo "$date"
 }
 
+function get_inode() {
+
+  case "$OSTYPE" in
+    darwin*)
+      inode=$(stat -f "%i" "$1")
+      ;;
+    *)
+      inode=$(stat -c "%i" "$1")
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+  echo "$inode"
+}
+
 function assertions() {
   # check error log is empty
   if grep -q '[^[:space:]]' $log_error_file; then
@@ -67,7 +81,7 @@ function assertions() {
 }
 
 function assert_matching_file_hardlinked() {
-  if ! [ "$(stat -c "%i" "$1")" -eq "$(stat -c "%i" "$2")" ]; then
+  if ! [ "$(get_inode "$1")" -eq "$(get_inode "$2")" ]; then
     echo "File '$1' was not hardlinked to '$2' when it should have been!"
     exit 1
   fi
diff --git a/zfs-inplace-rebalancing.sh b/zfs-inplace-rebalancing.sh
index 3906d15..1c8aed3 100755
--- a/zfs-inplace-rebalancing.sh
+++ b/zfs-inplace-rebalancing.sh
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ if [[ "${OSName}" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
     find "$root_path" -type f -not -path '*/.zfs/*' -exec stat --printf '%d:%i|%n\n' {} \; > files_list.txt
 elif [[ "${OSName}" == "darwin"* ]] || [[ "${OSName}" == "freebsd"* ]]; then
     # Mac OS and FreeBSD
-    find "$root_path" -type f -not -path '*/.zfs/*' -exec sh -c 'stat -f "%d:%i|%N" "$0"' {} \; > files_list.txt
+    find "$root_path" -type f -not -path '*/.zfs/*' -exec stat -f "%d:%i|%N" {} \; > files_list.txt
 else
     echo "Unsupported OS type: $OSTYPE"
     exit 1