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JAN 2012
25
- Published in: programming
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Not often but sometimes I discover new tools. Today I found ACK:”http://betterthangrep.com/”. There are some nice features:
- exclude git, svn directories
- perl regex
- better highlighting support
- per default 5 lines context
- pattern to exclude searched files
E.g to search the Linux Kernel network subdirectory for TCP SACK code the following command can be used:
ack-grep -CC SACK /usr/src/net-next/netThe CC option specifies that only *.c and *.h files are searched. Under Debian the package the program is called ack-grep.