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Open Source by Andy Lester | Link to website

Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file. Ack ignores backup files and files under CVS and .svn directories. It also highlights matches to help you see where the match was. Ack uses perl regular expressions (PCRE). Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of... More info »

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Platforms

Mac, Linux

Category

  File Management

Tags

file-search, search-tool, search-files
+6 more regular-expression, search-and-replace, grep, text-search, search-text-in-files, text-utility

Links

Website

Download

Linux (Ubuntu)




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