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ack3		advent-of-code-go
	Project
21	Mentions	63
669	Stars	152
1.8%	Growth	-
4.3	Activity	3.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Perl	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ack3

Posts with mentions or reviews of ack3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.

Any Linux admins willing to try Pygrep?
6 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 18 Mar 2023

fyi ack is like this but for perl instead of python https://beyondgrep.com/
Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2023

If you just need a single shell command you can do :!. Example:
:!ack "stupid_structure->who_wrote_this_crap.oooohhhhh\s+="
(and if you wonder what "ack" means: https://beyondgrep.com/)
Share your little shell functions and one-liners that make your life easier
4 projects | /r/commandline | 30 Oct 2022

Ack is consistent with grep but will sensibly handle the recursive stuff for you.
Found malware in the source code for my company’s website
2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 17 Oct 2022

Scan the file tree containing the website for the links, or part of tje links, for example with ack which is an easy to use, recursive reimplementation of grep.
What is something you want to make, but python is too slow for it?
1 project | /r/Python | 5 Oct 2022

I've thought about redoing ack in Python but it wasn't any faster than the current Perl.
I made grep -- but better
3 projects | /r/golang | 31 Aug 2022

Ever hear of ack it might be a faster alternative.
Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
73 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2022

No, but thanks for pointing out its existence. Homepage:
https://beyondgrep.com/
Can't run freeze_graph python script, No module named 'tensorflow.python'
2 projects | /r/tensorflow | 27 Jul 2022

(ack comes from ack-grep, a better version of grep, but you can just replace it with grep -r)
Using Ack To Search Elixir Code
1 project | dev.to | 27 May 2022

I've been a fan of ack for quite some time. Somehow (and I'm not quite sure how) once or twice it's found stuff in source code that VSCode simply misses (likely I was searching wrong with VSCode). And there are a few things I've found that make it even more effective in searching Elixir code that I thought I'd share.
ripgrep: grep but better
4 projects | /r/commandline | 5 May 2022

Very much agreed. I'm a developer and I honestly prefer ack (https://beyondgrep.com/) myself. But it has the exact same issue. It's not standard.

advent-of-code-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of advent-of-code-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-24.