ack is a grep-like utility that allows searching using Perl-like regular expressions instead of the ed-like regular expressions from grep.
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How do you ack for a file that contains two or more phrases/words?
How do you use ack to search for a file that contains, for example,
cat
dog
mouse
anywhere in the file? Each phrase occur at least once in the file.
This is kind of like the behavior of an online ...
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How to ack-grep replace a string of multiple words
The following command replaces every occurence of the word from in any file of the current directory or its subdirectories with to:
ack-grep -l --print0 --text from | xargs -0 -n 1 sed -i -e ...
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How to output a partial or a number from a mataching in grep or ack
I have a text file demo.txt like below.
This is a line with id (9)
This (8) is another line with id
(10) This is a line with id too
11 This line does nothing
The file has some lines with id ...
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Showing line number with filename in ack
when I search using ack I get results like this
/path/to/file/name
42: <code>goes here</code>
How do I get ack to return results like this instead:
/path/to/file/name:42 : ...
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How can I get a list of directories with ack?
I have a directory listing as follows (given by ls -la):
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 6 <user> <group> 204 Oct 18 12:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 <user> <group> 238 Oct 18 11:29 ..
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Macports install of ack doesn't create correct executable
I am trying to install p5-app-ack port from Mac Ports, but it seems it doesn't create a /opt/local/bin/ack binary at the end:
$ sudo port search *app-ack
Password:
p5-app-ack @1.960.0 (perl)
A ...
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Why doesn't ack recursively search all files by default?
From everything I can read
ack-grep foo
should search through all files in the current directory and subdirectories for the term "foo".
However, the closest I can get is
ack-grep foo *
Which ...
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Using ack to search for regex in a specific file type
Wondering if there's a way to look for something like ack foo "*.scss"
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how to make 'ack' command print the filename that has found the result on every line
By default ack command prints the output in follwing way
ack --jsp '</div>'
a.jsp
5:</span></div>
10:</table></div>
b.jsp
3:</div><div>xyz
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How do I map <cmd>-<shift>-f to run Ack plugin in Vim?
I'm new to vim and I'm trying to map a key combo for running the Ack plugin found here: https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
I want to map cmd-shift-f to run the Ack command :Ack. I've added the ...
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ack doesn't recurse when specifying a file pattern
ack "#define"
will recurse into subdirs and find files that contain #define. But I wanted to limit the search to *.h files, so I tried
ack "#define" *.h
and it doesn't recurse anymore. The only ...
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Can I simulate ack by using grep with the right combination of options?
I have ack-grep installed on my local machine, and find it indispensable for quickly 'acking' through a codebase when debugging.
However, on my cheap shared hosting, there is no ack-grep. One of the ...
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Using Ack.vim's quickwindow in vim
I am using ack.vim with vim. I get my search results back in a vim quickwindow which is great. Only problem is that I have to hit [enter] to open the file that's displaying in the quickwindow. On thee ...
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Is there a command in Mac OS X that can perform multiline regex searching?
I want to do a simple regex search recursively through a directory that isn't restricted to single lines.
I tried grep and ack, but neither seem to support this.
I know it shouldn't be too ...
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Adding file type to ack permanently
I've recently learned how to let ack support more filetypes (adding the following to .ackrc):
--type-add
latte=.latte
Unfortunately, that produces an info line on every ack search I use, even ones ...
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How to use ack to search for file name
I have started using ack which is much faster than grep. However using ack I want to search for file name rather than file contents. Is there a way to do that?
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grin, ack and rak comparison
Having used ack for some time now, I find it much better for my development purposes than grep. But then I've heard about rak and grin. Has anyone used all three of them and can provide a comparison?
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