Ack is a grep alternative, written in pure Perl, using Perl’s regular expressions to do your searches (just one of the long list of reasons to use this over grep). I think i’ll be using this then…
(0)ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions.
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