/categories/ack/ Recent content in Ack on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0530 /2022/04/02/Creating-and-using-ackrc/ Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0530 /2022/04/02/Creating-and-using-ackrc/ <p><strong>ack</strong> is a fantastic replacement for grep and probably much more than grep. Here is what the dnf info has to say about ack</p> <div class="highlight"><div class="chroma"> <table class="lntable"><tr><td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="lnt">1 </span><span class="lnt">2 </span><span class="lnt">3 </span><span class="lnt">4 </span><span class="lnt">5 </span><span class="lnt">6 </span></code></pre></td> <td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span class="line"><span class="cl">Name : ack </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">Architecture : noarch </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">Summary : Grep-like text finder </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">URL : http://beyondgrep.com/ </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">License : Artistic 2.0 </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">Description : Ack is designed as a replacement for grep. </span></span></code></pre></td></tr></table> </div> </div><p>And their websites says -</p> <blockquote> <p>Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl&rsquo;s regular expressions.</p>