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| created_at | kind | title | menupriority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-07-22T16:15:23+02:00 | article | Better than Grep | 1 |
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.
newcorps
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.