ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.
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Questions tagged [ack]
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Where should I put the ack configuration file on Windows?
I'm using ack (the grep replacement) on Windows XP under Strawberry Perl. Where should the .ackrc config file be placed, since ~/.ackrc is not reasonable on Windows?
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Performing a sed -i on a list of files in stdin
So I recently upgraded Django from 1.4 to 1.5. I found out I need to update all my template codes to add single quotes like from
{% url user_detail pk=user.pk %}
to
{% url 'user_detail' pk=user.pk %}
I'm kind of new to bash commands like sed, but…
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ack does not find symlinks
Here is a test:
$ ln -nfs ~/.ssh ssh # Create a symlink in current dir.
$ ack -g ssh # => nothing found
$ ack -a -g ssh # => same here
$ find . -name ssh # => found: ./ssh
What I am doing wrong? )
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Why doesn't my ack --ignore-dir work?
I'm trying to search my entire server for a string, whilst excluding dev/ (-R) using ack. So far I have
sudo ack -i --ignore-dir=dev * foo
--version ack v1.39
But I'm getting an error. Where am I going wrong?
Any help or advice on this matter is…
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In Vim, can I conditionally turn off a plugin based on the environment?
My current Vim setup includes the ack.vim plugin. Now, I'd like to use the Vim setup I have on other systems, but some of those systems don't have ack installed. Is there a way for me to detect the presence or absence of ack in the .vimrc and turn…
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How to exclude several lines around match with grep or similar tool?
I can find all non-matched lines of file with grep -v 'my_pattern' some_file. Also i can print few strings before/after/around match with -A, -B or -C options of grep. But i can't combine these two options to exclude lines with pattern and certain…
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Ack.vim "No such file or directory" error on windows
I had Ack setup and working fine with Vim on my windows XP machine not long ago. Not sure what I did recently, but now it doesn't work.
Here is an example of my problem in Vim:
:Ack searchterm
Returns this error message:
ack: searchterm: No such…
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How to search for '<' in files using ack in powershell in windows?
I cannot figure out how to escape the '<' character, and I am confused by the 'The system cannot find the file specified' error. Can anyone help?
I am using ack in powershell in Windows XP.
The question ack-grep: chars escaping is very similar to…
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Strip last part of file by pattern - remove last certificate from chain
I have a chain of SSL certificates like this
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIICPjCCAeSgAwIBAgIRALMMpKnhRM2C7mnKI/rl8ggwCgYIKoZIzj0EAwIwgY4x
CERT1
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN…
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Is it possible to add a -G option to ~/.ackrc
When I do
ack -G "^.*$" "foo"
I get results... but when I put
-G "^.*$"
or
-G="^.*$"
or
-G
"^.*$"
in my `~/.ackrc/ I get no results... Does anyone know if -G can be used in ackrc?
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Why does ack over ssh not work?
I've got a simple bash script to remove some folders on a remote server over ssh. It basically does this:
THE_HOST=12.34.56.78
ssh me@$THE_HOST "rm /the/file/path/thefile.zip"
This works perfectly well. Before I do this I often search the contents…
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ack: how to match beginning of words?
I'm using ack like this: ack-grep assets\\. (on Ubuntu)
However, I want to exclude results which do not begin with "assets". For example: siteassets.
So far I've tried ack-grep ^assets\\. and other random stuff.
(in Vim regex, the pattern is…
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Print out the matched word before the actual grep output is processed
My intention: Search trough source code and find keywords of interest. This is done to automate a small portion of codereview to find obvious programming errors like hardcoded keys and passwords.
I currently have the following grep command to search…
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Silversearcher/ack vs find,grep
Currently when I have to search for complex patterns in code, I typically use a combination of find and grep in the form:
find / \( -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*python3.*py' \) -exec grep -EliI '\b__[[:alnum:]]*_\b' {} \; -exec cat…
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Ack in a bash subshell
I want to search a number of files "in a bash loop".
Suppose I exec an ack search in a bash loop:
#!/bin/bash
seq 3 | while read i
do
test=`ack root /etc/passwd`
echo $test
done
prints one empty line.
Where as
#!/bin/bash
seq 3 | while…
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