Comments on: ack: grep for programmers

By: John Yerhot

John Yerhot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:31:53 +0000

Ack is great and FAST. FOSSCasts has a screencast going over ack basics too. http://fosscasts.com/screencasts/15-Power-Searching-with-Ack

By: mvc

mvc — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:34:31 +0000

I was about to say it couldn’t possibly be as cool as pcregrep, favoured tool of perl nerds everywhere and those who have learned to write regex’s like them, but I see it’s just a perl script. Looks good — as you say, not having to pipe everything to “grep -v svn” alone makes it worth using.

By: pmccurdy

pmccurdy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:27:48 +0000

Yes, as well as CVS, .hg, .bzr, and a bunch of other version control dirs. That said, I never found .git directories were getting in my way much even before I switched to ack, though if I were still using Subversion, that feature alone would have been killer.

By: Joe Mason

Joe Mason — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:23:08 +0000

Does it automatically skip .git and .svn dirs?