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		DannoHung on June 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Useful command-line scripts for web developers (or... Sorry, I thought people would be intrigued and google it. http://betterthangrep.com/ A quote: "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."

ori_b on June 5, 2009 [–]

Ack could have been done just as well with a 10 line shell wrapper around grep. It would have been much faster, on top of being simpler.

DannoHung on June 6, 2009 | [–]

Put thine code where thy mouth is.

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