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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Set Ack to look in handlebars files
I have Ack set up in Vim but at the moment it does not search in .handlebars files.
Does anyone know how I can add handlebars to the file list?
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copy SVN modified files including directory to a another directory
I have a list of files in my current working copy that have been modified locally. There are about 50 files that have been changed.
I am using the following command to copy files that have been modified in subversion to a folder called /backup. Is…
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copy SVN modified files only to another directory
I have a list of files in my current working copy that have been modified locally. There are about 50 files that have been changed.
I can get a list of these files by doing this:
svn st | ack '^M'
Is there a way I can copy these files and only…
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How do I search for the string '--branch' using ack?
In ack you can use the -Q option to escape all the characters in your search string, but that doesn't seem to work if the search string you are using looks like an option for ack.
I am trying to search a group of files for the string '--branch'. So…
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Using ACK as a Filter
I've been using ACK for searching my code base, and it's a wonderful tool. However, it has (in my opinion) one important limitation - it does not allow multi-line matching of regular expressions.
To overcome that limitation, I'd like to filter a set…
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How to use ack with M-x find-grep?
Leaving question here for reference. The Lord alone knows why, but whereas once upon a time this didn't work for me, prompting me to ask this question, today it does. Typical bloody emacs. Also typically, it is an utter joy once you've wrestled with…
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Slack Bolt await ack() - asynchronous
I am trying to implement a task creation workflow using slack modal. The task creation workflow sometimes takes more than 3 seconds to execute and come up with the result. So, based on the documentation, I called await ack() to acknowledge at the…
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Ag / Grep Exact Match Only Search
I am having an issue with using Ag (The Silver Searcher)...
In the docs it says to use -Q for exact match, but I don't understand why it does not work for my purposes. If I type something like ag -Q actions or ag -Q 'actions' into my terminal, it…
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Is there a way to set ignore case in .ackrc file
I want to ignore case by default without having to specify "-i" option everytime I run "ack" command. Is there a way to do it in .ackrc file?
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ack: Escape single quotes while providing regex
I am using ack to search for all values of width enclosed within single or double quotes.
Ex: width="23" , width='420'
RegEx Pal confirms /width=("|')\d+\1/g is the right regex for the job. I am however finding it difficult to supply this regex to…
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Python socket.io ack function
In JS socket.io, there's the third param in the emit function of client:
client.emit("event name",{some:"data"},function myack(value){
})
The myack function is passed to server and called with some returning value:
//server…
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Can ack/ag/grep print function name?
Is it possible to print the function or class name in which a keyword occurs when using ack or ag? This is something I have highly desired for quite some time.
I think it would be quite tricky, as different programming languages have different ways…
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Reliably checking wget log for errors using grep or ack
In a bash file, I have logfileA.txt that contains output from wget that I'd like to run grep on to check for any instances of the words "error" or "fail", etc, as so:
grep -ni --color=never -e "error" -e "fail" logfileA.txt | awk -F: '{print "Line…
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ack fails in cronjob but runs fine from commandline
I'm using ack as part of a bash script to build a list of MP4 files from a mysqldump. The dump file is about 15mb.
Here's my line:
ack -o "https??://cdn.host.com\S+?\.mp4" /home/me/.dump.sql > /home/me/.mp4-matches.txt
It works fine when running…
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Ack dooesn't show the line number when i search in the single file
example) When I search the exec in proc.c file,
$ ack allocproc proc.c
allocproc(void)
p = allocproc();
if((np = allocproc()) == 0){
// Return to "caller", actually trapret (see allocproc).
but when I search in the whole directory,
$ ack…
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