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A Perl-based grep replacement
A Perl-based grep replacement, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code (4)
A Perl-powered replacement for grep
A Perl-powered replacement for grep (documentation)
A container for functions for the ack program
A grep replacement, optimized for programmers
A grep-like program for searching source code
A grep-like program specifically for large source trees (2)
A grep-like tool tailored to working with large trees of source code
Ack is a grep-like tool, aimed at programmers with large trees of source code
Grep-Like Text Finder
Grep-like text finder (2)
Grep-like text finder for large trees of text (5)
Japanese code converter
Regular Expression Based Line Matching
Search tool like grep, but optimized for programmers
The Amsterdam Compiler Kit
Tool like grep optimized for programmers
Tool like grep, optimized for programmers
ack - grep-like text finder
ack is a code-searching tool, similar to grep but optimized for programmers searching large trees of source code. It runs in pure Perl, is highly portable, and runs on any platform that runs Perl.
ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers
grep like tool, aimed at programmers
tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code