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Any Linux admins willing to try Pygrep?
fyi ack is like this but for perl instead of python https://beyondgrep.com/
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Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?
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/)
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Share your little shell functions and one-liners that make your life easier
Ack is consistent with grep but will sensibly handle the recursive stuff for you.
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Found malware in the source code for my company’s website
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.
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I made grep -- but better
Ever hear of ack it might be a faster alternative.
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Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
No, but thanks for pointing out its existence. Homepage:
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Can't run freeze_graph python script, No module named 'tensorflow.python'
(ack comes from ack-grep, a better version of grep, but you can just replace it with grep -r)
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ripgrep: grep but better
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.
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Release 2.2.0 of an ack Bash Completion
Please visit beyondgrep.com for more information on ack and all of the command line options, which you can have completions for.
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Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago
My favorite missing tool of all time is `ack` [0]. It's grep if grep were made now. I use it all the time, and it's the first thing I install on a new system.
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Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, grep and ripgrep
That's how I had it at first.
I originally had it as a "phrasebook" of how to do the same thing in the different tools, but it was really ugly and took up a lot of horizontal space, and I figured it was more useful as a chart of yes/no. Also, there were cases where two tools had pretty much the same feature, but not exactly, so just listing flags didn't make sense.
I've still got a lot of the data of the switches in the JSON file that I build the chart from. https://github.com/beyondgrep/website/blob/dev/features.json If you've got ideas on how to bring back the phrasebook format, either integrated into this page, or as a separate standalone page, I'd love to hear them. Maybe the phrasebook isn't best done as a table like this, for example. Open a ticket in GitHub and let me know your thoughts.
The "print lines by number" was there because earlier versions of ack had a `--line=N` feature, where you could say "ack --line=15-18" and print those four lines. I dropped it because it was hardly any better than using sed.
If you've got suggestions on improvements, please submit an issue. I'd love to hear them.
What are some alternatives?
fzf.vim - fzf :heart: vim
ugrep - NEW ugrep 5.1: an ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep. Ugrep combines the best features of other grep, adds new features, and searches fast. Includes a TUI and adds Google-like search, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches nested archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more
ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
the_silver_searcher - A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
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