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Ack is a grep-like source code search tool
- abulman 5y agopreviously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beyondgrep.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beyondgrep.com see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3835901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3835901 (ag/the_silver_searcher)
- graderjs 5y agoI looked at your comment history and I see you consistently make a single comment a year each year. So, I am truly and genuinely honored that you have picked my post as your one single comment of 2022. Thank you :-)
- __vim__ 5y agoThe year is far from over
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- graderjs 5y agoI know, they're really going all in, right? Spending their one comment of the year so early in it, on me. I'm doubly honored, and more so because the year is so early.
- dartersnek 5y agoThey made two comments in 2018, and at least 4 in 2017.
- graderjs 5y ago:) Heh, I know! So tiny, right? I am so deeply honored to be part of such a tiny number of comments! :-)
- jedisct1 5y agoIt's pretty old, and there are better/faster alternatives these days, such as ugrep.
- petdance 5y agoWhat makes ugrep better for your use cases?
- c17r 5y agoLivegrep https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep is my weapon of choice these days.
- mekster 5y agoI always wonder why I want to run something I can accomplish within an IDE through another tool. What's the advantage against running find in files from my editor?
- c17r 5y agoIf it's just searching through a single project inside an IDE, I agree with you. But I have a Livegrep instance setup to index all 1000 repos into a single search space and it's still nigh instantaneous.