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title: Ack
layout: post
summary: In which I share my settings for ack..
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> 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:

{% highlight sh %}
--sort-files
--color
--context=1
--follow
{% endhighlight %}

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!