Comments on: ack: grep but better!

By: Bag of useful Bash aliases and functions | tail -f findings.out

Bag of useful Bash aliases and functions | tail -f findings.out — Sun, 15 May 2011 01:10:35 +0000

[...] you invoke ack-grep it’s case-sensitive by default. It also ignores certain files and directories, based on their [...]

By: Benoit Caccinolo

Benoit Caccinolo — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:38:16 +0000

Ack-grep saved my life several times. I’m using it extensively on my iPhone development.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ack-grep-a-grep-like-program-specifically-for-large-source-trees.html/comment-page-1#comment-49837

By: install ack gagal « devprg

install ack gagal « devprg — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:44:12 +0000

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By: ack: grep but better! | tail -f findings.out « Nocturnal Realms

ack: grep but better! | tail -f findings.out « Nocturnal Realms — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:25:47 +0000

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By: John Swindells

John Swindells — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:33:38 +0000

Awesome tool, thanks for the CentOS installation tip!

By: Ankur Patwa

Ankur Patwa — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:10:06 +0000

I had to switch from Ubuntu to RHEL. I could not find how to install ack. This was helpful. Thanks!

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:41:24 +0000

@Craig Buchek: Thanks for the find! I thought I had that in place, guess not. Fixed now.

By: Craig Buchek

Craig Buchek — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:14:36 +0000

The CPAN command requires 2 colons:

cpan -i App::Ack

By: by Immortal Curiosity

by Immortal Curiosity — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:31:00 +0000

I just removed the real “ack”, and made an alias from “ack” to “ack-grep”

By: stu42j

stu42j — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:39:00 +0000

It is really a shame about the naming conflict on Debian/Ubuntu. You are missing out on reason 13 from the Top 10 reasons to use ack instead of grep.

Command name is 25% fewer characters to type!