Comment Re:Better Than Grep (Score 1) 641
Mod parent up.
My life has gotten SO much better since I started using ack(1). Key features:
- By default, it ignores files that should be ignored (binaries, cvs/svn/whatever files), which makes for MUCH faster searches.
- Significantly better display options and other "do what I mean" sanity.
- Pure perl and therefore uses Perl regexes.
- You can restrict searches to files of a specific general type ("ack --php" searches only
No disclaimer necessary--I'm not involved with development, just a really happy user.