

ack
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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.
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- Free • Open Source
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United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
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Easy to use, text searching tool! Displays the file and lines where the text was found. Searchs recursively on the folder it was run on.
Please note that ack is written purely in Perl, and thus uses Perl regular expressions. PCRE is supposedly "Perl-compatible regular expressions" but there are incompatibilities.