<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Eric Junker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@eric.nu">eric@eric.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you use grep a lot you should check out ack.<br>
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<a href="http://betterthangrep.com/" target="_blank">http://betterthangrep.com/</a><br>
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ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of<br>
heterogeneous source code. Faster than grep, color highlighting, etc.<br></blockquote></div><br>+1, I use this every day for searching my codebases. By default it will ignore the things you want it to ignore, like vim swp files, .svn/, etc. There's even a nice script out there for using it from within vim as a 'hotfix list' or whatever the kids call it these days.<br>
<br>- Nathan<br>