Better than Grep
update
As Andy Lester told me ack
is a simple file you only have to copy in your ~/bin
folder. Now I’ve got ack
on my professional server.
Go on http://betterthangrep.com to download it.
Sincerely, I don’t understand ack
don’t become a common command on all UNIX systems. I can no more live without. For me it is as essential as which
or find
.
Better than grep
One of the my main usage of grep
is
grep 'pattern' **/*(.)
Most of time it is enough.
But it is far better with colored output.
ack-grep
in Ubuntu does that.
As I couldn’t install it on my ‘Evil Company Server’,
I had done one myself in very few lines:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh (($#<1)) && { print 'usage: ack "regexp"' >&2; exit 1 } listeFic=( **/*(.) ) autoload zargs 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"; } '
For my team and I it is usable enough. I hope it could help.
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Created: 07/22/2009
Modified: 05/09/2010