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| author | Franck Cuny <franck.cuny@gmail.com> | 2016-08-10 14:33:04 -0700 |
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| committer | Franck Cuny <franck.cuny@gmail.com> | 2016-08-10 20:17:56 -0700 |
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diff --git a/posts/2008-06-24-ack.md b/posts/2008-06-24-ack.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d4a93d --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2008-06-24-ack.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +> Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. + +[Ack](https://metacpan.org/module/App::Ack) is a really nice tool for searching your source code. It's faster than grep because he already knows what you want : searching your sources files :) + +By default it will not search in SCM files (.git, .svn, ...), backups files (source.pl~, source.pl.bak, ...). You can specify what kind of files you want (`--perl`, `--cc`, ...), make it match some regex with `--match`, ... + +And you can set some defaults configuration in a .ackrc file ! Mine looks like this: + +``` bash +--sort-files +--color +--context=1 +--follow +``` + +Check also: [vim with ack integration](http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_Ovid/journal/36430.html). + +Oh, and it's the only program with `--thpppt` option! |
