One of my good friends told me about a new tool that I could use to search for strings in my source code.
It is called ack and it is pretty easy to install and use.
I have a RHEL 5.5 system and it works without a lot of hassle.
Below is the URL for it.
http://betterthangrep.com/install/
The URL for the actual tool is
http://betterthangrep.com/
As the name suggests, this is a better than grep and I second it.
So who is this useful for?
I would say developers who use search more often to look for certain specific strings in their source code would really love this tool.
Advantages:
It is called ack and it is pretty easy to install and use.
I have a RHEL 5.5 system and it works without a lot of hassle.
Below is the URL for it.
http://betterthangrep.com/install/
The URL for the actual tool is
http://betterthangrep.com/
As the name suggests, this is a better than grep and I second it.
So who is this useful for?
I would say developers who use search more often to look for certain specific strings in their source code would really love this tool.
Advantages:
- It's fast because it only searches the stuff it makes sense to search.
- Searches entire trees by default while ignoring Subversion, Git and other VCS directories and other files that aren't your source code.
- Where grep is a general text search tool, ack is especially for the programmer searching source code. Common tasks take fewer keystrokes.
- Ack costs nothing. It's 100% free.
