<p>Well, long time no post here.</p> <p>I'm going to talk about a tool that changed the way I do search on the programming front.</p> <p>Since I really don't like grep for common searches (it's a great tool but it's interface is a bit clunky) I used to use the <a href="http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/" title="Regexxer">Regexxer</a> for those kind of project searches (it's a great GUI tool, I recommend it to anyone).</p> <p>But since I'm more of a minimalist command line kind of guy, I was happy as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo" title="Happy monkey">bonobo</a> when I found <a href="http://petdance.com/ack/" title="Ack makes me happy, Bonobo style">ack</a>, a grep like program hat has a interface for human beings (yeah, ubuntu reference, sue me). To give a little example on how simple is to search in a ruby project for example:</p> <pre><code>cd ~/project/path</code></pre> <pre><code>ack-grep --ruby string_to_be_searched</code></pre> <p>And that's it, if you want any more details, the <a href="http://petdance.com/ack/" title="again, a cool link">ack</a> home page has a great little tutorial.</p> <p>Hugs everyone.</p> 2008-06-26T13:58:57Z 26 better-than-grep-you-bet 2008-10-24T04:29:31Z 1