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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..96e8388 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2008-06-24-ack.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Ack +layout: post +summary: In which I share my settings for ack.. +--- + +*"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 (**.svn**, **.cvs**, ...), 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: + +``` +--sort-files +--color +--context=1 +--follow +``` + +Check also: [vim with ack integration](http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36430?from=rss). + +Oh, and it's the only program with `--thpppt` option! |