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Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • Haiku
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Features

  1.  Full-Text Search
  2.  No registration required
  3.  File Search
  4.  Search and Replace
  5.  Support for regular expressions

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  • Developed by

    US flagAndy Lester

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  827 Stars
  •  76 Forks
  •  153 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about ack, and it has gotten 10 likes

ack was added to AlternativeTo by kafene on and this page was last updated .

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Top Positive Comment
dadoomer
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Easy to use, text searching tool! Displays the file and lines where the text was found. Searchs recursively on the folder it was run on.

petdance
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Please note that ack is written purely in Perl, and thus uses Perl regular expressions. PCRE is supposedly "Perl-compatible regular expressions" but there are incompatibilities.

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What is ack?

Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

Ack ignores backup files and files under CVS and .svn directories. It also highlights matches to help you see where the match was. Ack uses perl regular expressions (PCRE).

Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written purely in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.