ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.
ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.
* Searches recursively through directories by default, while ignoring .svn, CVS and other VCS directories.
* ack ignores most of the crap you don't want to search
* Lets you specify file types to search, as in --perl or --nohtml.
* Color highlighting of search results.
* Uses real Perl regular expressions, not a GNU subset.
* ack is pure Perl, so consistent across all platforms. It even comes as a single standalone program with no module dependencies.
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Updated 20 Jul 2008 16:39 UTC
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Can't live without it
I use 'ack' every day to search through thousands of source files spread across dozens of distributions. It beats the hell out of:
find . -type f !-path '*.svn*' | xargs grep Foo
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Addictive
by ChrisDolan
Every time I work on a new computer, I invariably try to run ack at some point and get annoyed that I have to fall back to 'egrep -r '' . | grep -v svn'. I hope that someday it's pre-installed everywhere.
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