Top "Ack" questions

ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.

Can ack find files based on filename only?

Using ack (sometimes packaged as ack-grep) I know that I can find paths that contain a specific string by doing: …

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Install ack-grep on CentOS

I went through fair amount of google search to install ack-grep on CentOS but I didn't find anything help. I …

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How can I get ack to ignore *.orig files?

I put this in my .ackrc: --type-set=DUMB=*.orig --noDUMB ... but I'm still seeing files like main.py.orig in …

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Ack with regex - Confusion with simple queries

I am trying to use ack-is-better-than-grep (ack) with regular expressions to find lines and snippets in my code repository. My …

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Ignoring a directory using ack's .ackrc

I'm not sure what it's for, but the code I'm working on has a bunch of folders called "save.d," …

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Ack — Ignoring multiple directories without repeating the flag

Is it possible to ignore multiple directories in Ack, without repeating the flag? e.g. I know the following works (…

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How to let ack support more filetypes?

in ack's home page, there lists a lot of file type, but without aspx, is it possible to let ack …

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How can I escape the % and # characters in a Vim command?

I'm using Ack (https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim) with the --literal flag to search through projects in Vim. I …

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ack misses results (vs. grep)

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something about ack's file/directory ignore defaults, but perhaps somebody could shed some light on this …

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Searching multiple patterns (words) with ack?

I want to search multiple patterns in a directory containing recursive directories and files. I know command for grep which …

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