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The problem with such tools is often their lack of ubiquity. I don't want to start using ack, forget a lot of my grep knowledge, only to ssh into a server and n
by gejjaxxita 12y ago
The problem with such tools is often their lack of ubiquity. I don't want to start using ack, forget a lot of my grep knowledge, only to ssh into a server and need grep.
The benefit of grep's ubiquity outweighs any small advantage ack has in usability.
- davorb 12y agoack is a tiny perl script that you can simply wget and add to your path. I hear what you are saying, and I think that it applies to a lot of utilities, but not ack. Imho ack is so much better than grep that it is worth the hassle of having to install it every now and then.
- mdavidn 12y agoTry git-grep. It ignores the .git directory, and it's as ubiquitous as Git.