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by tmplinshi » 27 Jan 2014, 21:19
ack 2.12 is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers
Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written purely in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.
Top 5 reasons to use ack
- Blazing fast
It's fast because it only searches the stuff it makes sense to search.
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- Better search
Searches entire trees by default while ignoring Subversion, Git and other VCS directories and other files that aren't your source code.
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- Designed for code search
Where grep is a general text search tool, ack is especially for the programmer searching source code. Common tasks take fewer keystrokes.
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- Highly portable
ack is pure Perl, so it easily runs on a Windows installation Perl (like Strawberry Perl) without modifications.
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- Free and open
Ack costs nothing. It's 100% free and open source under Artistic License v2.0.
How to install
Example:
