diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e1b9322..df44f4b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Create a new searx instance in five minutes using Docker (see https://github.com
 ## How to use it
 - [Install docker](https://docs.docker.com/install/)
 - [Install docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) (be sure that docker-compose version is at least 1.9.0).
+- only on MacOSX: ```brew install coreutils``` to install ```greadlink```
 - Get searx-docker
 ```sh
 cd /usr/local
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index fa12ffb..9a5a760 100755
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-BASE_DIR="$(dirname -- "`readlink -f -- "$0"`")"
+READLINK="$(which readlink greadlink | tail -n1)"
+BASE_DIR="$(dirname -- "`$READLINK -f -- "$0"`")"
 cd -- "$BASE_DIR"
 
 . ./util.sh
diff --git a/stop.sh b/stop.sh
index 07f67f1..48f609b 100755
--- a/stop.sh
+++ b/stop.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-BASE_DIR="$(dirname -- "`readlink -f -- "$0"`")"
+READLINK="$(which readlink greadlink | tail -n1)"
+BASE_DIR="$(dirname -- "`$READLINK -f -- "$0"`")"
 cd -- "$BASE_DIR"
 
 . ./util.sh
diff --git a/update.sh b/update.sh
index 6f7cb55..9b8f75c 100755
--- a/update.sh
+++ b/update.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ SERVICE_NAME="searx-docker.service"
 # rebase : rebase with autostash, at your own risk
 UPDATE_TYPE="fastforward"
 
-BASE_DIR="$(dirname -- "`readlink -f -- "$0"`")"
+READLINK="$(which readlink greadlink | tail -n1)"
+BASE_DIR="$(dirname -- "`$READLINK -f -- "$0"`")"
 cd -- "$BASE_DIR"
 
 # check if git presence