ack is a grep-like tool optimized for working with large trees of source code.

ack is not intended to be a general-purpose replacement for grep. ack is for searching source code of defined file types. For searching other files, you may want to stick with grep.

DEPENDENCIES

File::Next
    https://github.com/petdance/file-next

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

You can look for information at:

• ack home page

  • http://betterthangrep.com/

• CPAN home

  • http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack

• Project home

  • http://github.com/petdance/ack

• AnnoCPAN, annotated documentation

  • http://annocpan.org/dist/ack

• CPAN Ratings

  • http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/ack

• Issue list at Github (report bugs here)

  • http://github.com/petdance/ack/issues

• The ack mailing list

  • http://groups.google.com/group/ack-users

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005-2010 Andy Lester.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.