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Andy Lester
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I've been a professional programmer for 33 years. I work in Perl and a big pile of legacy PHP.

My book Land the Tech Job You Love is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf.

I created and maintain the programmer's grep-like search tool ack

My blog about tech life, including job hunting, is blog.petdance.com.

Twitter: petdance, beyondgrep and perlbuzz

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ls -rt (How to list just THE LAST file? e.g. for: | xargs gnome-open)
Oct 9, 2010
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ack-grep show the matched files name only. Do not show the matched content
Jul 19, 2017
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How to grep a line start with "*" using grep
May 13, 2010
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How to use ack to search for file name
May 1, 2010
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How do you ack for a file that contains two or more phrases/words?
Apr 29, 2013
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Configure ack on a per-directory basis
Feb 7, 2014
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Can I simulate ack by using grep with the right combination of options?
Aug 25, 2011
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Application to open / edit a very large CSV file (500 MB, 4 million records)?
May 6, 2010
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Is there an simple but good To Do Manager app for the Mac?
May 13, 2010
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ack + grep + not really match the string
Oct 14, 2010
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How do I set a variable to the output of a command in Bash?
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How do I add an empty directory to a Git repository?
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How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?
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How can I sanitize user input with PHP?
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How can I speed up my Perl program?

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