Alternative to
grep
Website
https://beyondgrep.com/
Project page
https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack2/
Author
Andy Lester
Language
Perl

ack

a tool like grep, optimized for programmers

  • Better search for programmers than plain grep
  • Highly portable
  • Automatically ignores VCS directories
  • Search based on filetypes, not just extensions
  • Define your own filetypes

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