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< p > As < a href = "http://www.theworkinggeek.com" > Andy Lester< / a > told me < a href = "http://betterthangrep.com" > < code > ack< / code > < / a > is a simple file you only have to copy in your < code > ~/bin< / code > folder. Now I’ ve got < code > ack< / code > on my professional server.< / p >
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< p > Go on < a href = "http://betterthangrep.com" > http://betterthangrep.com< / a > to download it.< / p >
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< p > Sincerely, I don’ t understand < code > ack< / code > don’ t become a common command on all UNIX systems. I can no more live without. For me it is as essential as < code > which< / code > or < code > find< / code > .< / p >
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< p > One of the my main usage of < code > grep< / code > is< / p >
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< pre > < code class = "zsh" > grep 'pattern' **/*(.)< / code > < / pre >
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< p > Most of time it is enough.
But it is far better with colored output.
< code > ack-grep< / code > in Ubuntu does that.
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As I couldn’ t install it on my ‘ Evil Company Server’ ,
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I had done one myself in very few lines:< / p >
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< pre > < code class = "zsh" > #!/usr/bin/env zsh
(($#< 1)) & & { print 'usage: ack "regexp"' > &2; exit 1 }
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listeFic=( **/*(.) )
autoload zargs
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zargs -- $listeFic -- grep $1 | perl -ne 'use Term::ANSIColor;
if (m/([^:]*)(:.*)('$1')(.*)/) {
print color("green").$1;
print color("reset").$2;
print color("black","on_yellow").$3;
print color("reset").$4."\n";
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< p > For my team and I it is usable enough.
I hope it could help.< / p >
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