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Wow I just learned about Ack as a result of your comment. This is a scale of magnitude better than grep -R [pattern] [directory] for searching through large co

by Cieplak 15y ago

Wow I just learned about Ack as a result of your comment. This is a scale of magnitude better than grep -R [pattern] [directory] for searching through large codebases Thanks!

foz 15y ago
Don't forget RAK, the ruby gem (works the same). gem install rak.
- Cieplak 15y ago
  I've been using both RAK and ack for the past two days, and for some reason RAK misses things that ack catches. Probably a Cygwin issue.