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  • ack does include *~ backup files from (x)emacs. Can you please skip them too.
    Thanks.

  • This isn't a bug report so much as a question: why does that ack info page list all of the switches but ack's documentation doesn't?

  • Sounds like you want zsh... Most of the file selection stuff can be done with zsh's extended globbing [dotsrc.org]. Then it becomes available for every application, not just ack/grep.

    But the colour highlighting does look cool. :-)

    -Dom

    • Don't be so mean: zsh isn't for everyone out there. Remember the OS-impaired people. I know they (me among them) possibly can install a port of zsh, but installing ack is so much easier. And there is the portability issue Andy mentioned.

      Disclaimer: installing ack is easy if you have a working setting for CPAN, which is not that hard.

      • Well, there's always cygwin if you want bash or zsh under windows. It's not for everybody, but I find it to be a tolerable working environment when I'm in Windows.

        But I more just wanted to point out a feature that I use everyday. grep Foo **/*.pm is really handy and I think more people should use zsh and take advantage of these features!

        -Dom

  • With a little exaggeration, I appreciate ack so much that I have adopted it with the same status of Unix utilities like grep, find, wc, etc. ack is brutally useful in daily development tasks.

    The title of the comment is reminiscent to Andy's comment on corelist (which is much more Perl specific).

  • I'm interested, because using :grep in vim fills up my buffer list with blib/lib files.

    If I could get :grep --exclude to work, I might be less interested.

    What's the correct way to use grep --exclude to exclude blib/lib files? I can never get it to work.

    • The current release of GNU grep can't do it.

      The CVS tree has support for a new option --exclude-dir, which will allow you to put things like these into your $GREP_OPTIONS environment variable:

      • --exclude-dir=blib
      • --exclude-dir=.svn
      • --exclude-dir=CVS

      Though, that said, it's not clear to me how soon there'll be a release of GNU grep supporting that feature.

    • Don't bother with the grep. Get ack to take care of it. It ignores .svn and blib, and you can use --perl to only find Perl files.
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      xoa

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