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If you prefer Python and don't want to have Perl around just for the sake of 'ack', check out 'pss' - a similar tool written in pure Python: https://bitbucket.o
by eliben 14y ago
If you prefer Python and don't want to have Perl around just for the sake of 'ack', check out 'pss' - a similar tool written in pure Python: https://bitbucket.org/eliben/pss https://bitbucket.org/eliben/pss
[sorry for the plug, but it's definitely relevant to the discussion]
- philh 14y agoIs it common these days not to have perl installed? I assumed it was still standard on UNIX systems. I count 308 perl scripts in my /usr/bin.
- Moto7451 14y agoAside from embedded/routers and Windows machines, it's few and far between. At the very least you're going to have something ancient like Perl 5.6 or 5.8 installed.
- eliben 14y agoActually my initial motivation for developing pss was Windows. I had to use Windows at work at the time, and installing Perl just for the sake of ack was pain. ack also needs an additional module from CPAN (for console coloring), so double pain. Python, OTOH, is always one of the first I install on every machine that doesn't have it :) pss requires no installation, no additional modules, just Python.