Ack
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008“Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep.”
Ack is a real nice tool for searching your source code. It’s faster than grep because he already knows what you want : searching sources files :)
By default it will not search in SCM files (.svn, .cvs, …), backups files (source.pl~, source.pl.bak, …). You can specify what kind of files you want (–perl –cc, …), make it match some regex with –match, …
And you can set some defaults configuration in a .ackrc file ! Mine looks like this:
--sort-files --color --context=1 --follow
Check also: vim with ack integration.
Oh, and it’s the only program with –thpppt option.
