I use ag[2], which is pretty much the same as ack, but even faster. The other day I was using it to find all instances in all projects of a list of problematic

I use ag[2], which is pretty much the same as ack, but even faster. The other day I was using it to find all instances in all projects of a list of problematic method names[1], in case anyone wants to see a real world use case. [1]: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108471/no-output-using-parallel-in-tandem-with-ag-or-ack/108472#108472 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108471/no-output-usi... [2]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher